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ne was 19 years old then Afo ho oraduated. she began her career as a
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as Journalists than women. so she wwote under the name E. R. Scidmore to
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nide her gender. Her writing became Dobular. and she was able to save enough
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noney to travel. Scidmore was alwavs interested in travel_and it was her
dream to visit foreign countries. Her first trip was to Alaska by steamship.
When she returned, she wrote about the experience and createda guidebook
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about it. This was about 75 years before it became part of the United States.
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2 After that she traveled to many countries and wrote about her experiences |
in them. In her travels, she visited Japan and fell in love with the cherry
blossoms. She especially loved to see the reflection of the cherry blossoms in
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water. Planting cherry trees along the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.
became her dream.
3 After she returned from her first trip to Japan, she wrote letters to people 15
journalist and wrote for various newspapers. At that time, more men worked
1 Eliza Scidmore graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio in the US in 1875.
They did not want trees fro
Scidmore's Cherry Trees
