Ernest Brundin's widow, Elinor, told of finding a letter from Agnes among his papers after his death. In this letter, written in 1913, a few months after her abortion, Agnes poured out her intense anger. Hurt that her husband had saved this letter for so many years, Elinor tore it up on the spot

See Thorberg Brundin, »Light Reactions of Terrestrial Amphipods,« Journal of Animal Behavior 3, no. 5 (September—October 1913): 334—52. The original thesis is in the library of the University of California, Berkeley

Smedley, Daughter of Earth, p. 186

Tempe Normal Student, April 26, 1912

Smedley articles cited fully in Bibliography. Her first signed story was an imagined interview with an old-timer about the history of cowboy days in Tas-cosa, Texas, which did not mention her illness and threatened rape. "The Magazine Agent" was again autobiographical. She acknowledged the hostility she had experienced from other women but left out negative sexual overtones and romanticized her interactions with men. The tone is defensive, explaining that she took such a job in the first place because of bad health.

Letters from Vera M. Keeney, April 3, 1973, and Eva Hance, December 17, 1972, and April 6, 1973; "Recalls 'Red Empress' as Student at Tempe," Phoenix Gazette, January 11, 1937; school photographs preserved in the University Archives, Arizona State University

Postcards dated 1908 — 10 in Smedley collection used to trace movements. On Raton, see New Mexico State University Engineering Experiment Station Bulletin, no. 8 (1959): 8—9; also oral histories in manuscript, New Mexico State University, courtesy of Joan Jensen. For example, on the schools: "Raton was a small mining community sharply divided between miners and business people. . . . Father worked as a schoolteacher while mother, a qualified home economic teacher, stayed home and took care of the family.

Mamie said about their 1908 reunion, "Agnes didn't talk of hard times." She was a "saucy" sixteen-year-old and proud of being a schoolteacher. Mamie never saw Agnes again. She married a railroad man at nineteen and has lived ever since in the Osgood-Campground area, except for a "brief period of fourteen years" when she lived in a small town to the north. But over the years she saved Smedley's childhood photos and newspaper clippings that appeared on her friend in Missouri newspapers.

Photo in Smedley collection, Arizona State University. For Tercio, see another memoir: Jose M. Romero, El Valle de los Rancheros (no date, no publisher), chapter 12, and Trinidad City Directory, vols, for 1904-07. Tercio belonged to the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co.

Materials at Colorado Historical Society, Trinidad, and Public Library; representative memoir: Banon B. Beshwar, Out of the Depths (Denver, 1942)