“January 4, 1883. I take my pen in hand with much pleasure tonight to scratch you a few words,” began Ella Oblinger’s letter to her grandparents and Uncle Charley Thomas. Raised in her family’s sod house in Nebraska since she was a baby in 1873, Ella was writing from her current home in Minnesota about her planned visit to share her good fortune with the ill and downtrodden. “New-Years I got a circle-comb, and some candy. New-Years Day I went to St. Peter ... to see the Asylum but w
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