![]() ![]() When he had been in Montana for less than a month and things were going very poorly indeed, he stumbled on his great discovery. ![]() He selected two dozen of the most faithful blacks, who, of course, worshipped him, and bought twenty–five tickets to the West, where he intended to take out land in their names and start a sheep and cattle ranch. At the close of the Civil War he was a twenty–five–year–old Colonel with a played–out plantation and about a thousand dollars in gold.įitz–Norman Culpepper Washington, for that was the young Colonel's name, decided to present the Virginia estate to his younger brother and go West. Washington had been a Virginian, a direct descendant of George Washington, and Lord Baltimore. This is a story of the Washington family as Percy sketched it for John during breakfast. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser. ![]()
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