From the Lawrence Daily World for Sept. 28, 1910: “That she might enroll in the new department of home economics at the University of Kansas, Miss Mabel Edith Ransom of Perry, Oklahoma, rode horseback three hundred and fifty miles to Lawrence. Miss Ransom arrived here last Thursday after spending a week on the road. The young lady was given the yard-long application blank to fill out and early encountered a difficult question to answer. She approached the registrar and inquired: ‘What county is this please. You see I haven’t been in Lawrence but a short while. I rode my saddle pony up from Oklahoma and I am not familiar with this part of the country.’ Miss Ransom does not regard her overland trip of several hundred miles on horseback as anything out of the ordinary. ‘I was eager to take a scientific course in cooking, house-keeping and such subjects,’ she said, ‘and as I couldn’t bear the thought of leaving my saddle pony at home, I just decided to bring him along with me. It was hard to gain Mamma’s consent to let me take the trip by myself, though. I had to beg for two weeks before she would say “yes.” No, I can’t say that I had any thrilling adventures. I ate dinner at a restaurant once and slept at a hotel, but the remainder of the time I remained overnight at farm houses along the road. Once I rode through a 3,500 acre pasture to avoid going out of my way. I was advised not to attempt it but I felt sure I would be safe in going through. I never saw so many cattle before, not even in Oklahoma. At Ft. Riley, too, I met a troop of cavalry driving 2,000 mules and I rode right through them.”