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Letter describing Minnesota wilderness, 1855 February 11 : manuscript

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Open book Letter describing Minnesota wilderness, 1855 February 11 : manuscript

Title Letter describing Minnesota wilderness, 1855 February 11 : manuscript

Date 1855

Place Minnetonka (Minn.), Minnesota

Language English

Subjects Frontier and pioneer life

Summary Letter signed "Bill" and addressed to "Folks at home" dated in Minneapolis February 11, 1855. Describes area around Minnetonka, Minnesota as "the roughest country you ever saw," full of difficult terrain but goes on to say "there's beauty in the haunts of nature and music howling winds, the timid deer range over hill and dale startled by the least noise runs O my! how they run to more secure quarters ...".

Extent 1 item (4 pages) : illustration ; 26 x 40 cm, folded to 26 x 20 cm

Format Manuscripts, Correspondence, Letterheads, Views, Wood engravings

User-Contributed Transcription [Letterhead reading CHICAGO LAKE SHORE, with a drawing of the waterfront]
Minneapolis Feb 11th/55
Dear Folks at Home
Again I resume my pen to inform you of "nothing," in as many volumes as you wish. received your's today dated Dec. 25th/54, mailed Jan 26th 1855 that is consistent I suppose: all right: am here for a day only. came in this morning, go back to night to Minnetonka News is as scarce here as with you. dull times for that, or, no time to attend to it work enough and pressing I can live contented anywhere when I'm employed: or, for a lodge in some vast wilderness: here we have it at and about Minnetonka is the roughest country you ever saw

Transcription Status Completed

Transcription Note This document was transcribed by volunteers as part of the Newberry Transcribe crowdsourcing initiative.

Archival Collection Title Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS 272

BibID 999692878805867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2482px × 3106px 44.15 MB

Filename 999692878805867_midwest_ms_0272_000001.tif

Unique Identifier NL12XCI6

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