Letters from Baldwin & Shilton, sutlers, South Dakota, to John B. and William Simpson, New York, N.Y.Baldwin, T. W., (Thomas W.)1870-1876Letters from Baldwin and Shilton to John B. and William Simpson, reporting expenses incurred in fulfilling their contract with the garrison there. In the letters they also make passing references to one company in the garrison heading out to fight Sitting Bull, one of which is dated two months before the Battle of Little Bighorn.Purchased from Hickory Ledge Books on the William Robertson Coe Fund, 1967.T. W. Baldwin and Daniel P. Shilton were partners working as sutlers at Fort Wadsworth, Dakota Territory (later Fort Sisseton, South Dakota). The Simpson brothers lived in New York City; John B. Simpson was Shilton's uncle. Baldwin and Shilton obtained loans from the Simpsons to set up as sutlers at Fort Wadsworth. They also owned a store in Waubay, thirty miles away.text