The Placerville and Humboldt Telegraph Company had constructed a magnetic telegraph line from Placerville, California, to Salt Lake City, Utah, and St. Joseph, Missouri. Further plans were made to construct a direct line to California in the spring, b...
Subject (Name):
Bee, Fred A, Gwin, William McKendree, 1805-1885, and Placerville & Humboldt Telegraph Co
Subject (Topic):
Telegraph--California, Telegraph--Missouri, and Telegraph--Utah
Bennett, Clarence Edmund, d. 1902 Eckels, Delano Russell.
Published / Created:
1858
Call Number:
WA MSS S-1124 Ec54
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Delano R. Eckels, Chief Justice of the Utah Territory, informs Lt. Bennett of the 10th Infantry "I have not yet procured you a bedfellow for the coming winter...we have no news except that half of the Civil Government of Utah is not sober."
Description:
Copy of original letter to Bennett which was dropped on the road from Great Salt Lake City to Camp Floyd, Utah. Copies were made by the Mormons, and the original was returned to Bennett.
Also present are two photographs, apparently of Beresford, undated, and three picture postcards with illustrations of Warner Hot Springs. Letters and story installments are accompanied by seventeen envelopes.
Description:
Purchased from Charles Hamilton on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 1962.
Subject (Geographic):
Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions, San Diego County (Calif.)--Social life and customs, Santa Ysabel (Calif.), and Warner Springs (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Beresford, Joseph D. Green Crystal., Beresford, Joseph D. Witch stone., and Symonds, Joseph H. A., Mrs
Subject (Topic):
Cattle trails--Arizona, Mysticism, Prospecting--Colorado Desert (Calif. and Mexico), and Ranch life--California--San Diego County
Two autograph letters, signed, from William Birth, solider stationed at Fort Shaw, Montana to his friend, Perry Hobbs. Birth describes his participation in the Marias Massacre, in which United States Army soldiers massacred approximately two hundred m...
Description:
Purchased from William Reese Co. (Cowan's sale, 2011 December 2, lot 291) on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2011.
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Shaw (Mont.) and Marias River (Mont.)
Subject (Name):
Birth, William, 1842-1914, Hobbs, Perry, and United States Army Infantry, 13th
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Montana, Indians of North America--Wars--1866-1895--Personal narratives, Marias Massacre, Mont., 1870, Siksika Indians, and Soldiers--Montana