Horsfall, Charles G., fl. 1900-1910 to Owen Horsfall

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GLC#
GLC05245.05-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
November 30, 1900
Author/Creator
Horsfall, Charles G., fl. 1900-1910
Title
to Owen Horsfall
Place Written
Nome, Alaska
Pagination
8 p. : Height: 27.5 cm, Width: 21.5 cm
Primary time period
Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
Sub-Era
Development of the West

Writes to his son stating that many men lost their lives from starvation or exposure as they were stuck with their dogteams on the trail to Teller, Alaska. He was talking to a friend, who told him that last summer at the local saloon and gambling house "they got all of their claims from parties who did not think much of them and would sell them for $10 or perhaps a hundred dollars each, or perhaps wanted a few dollars for a gambling stake…" Written on stationary from the Alaska Gold Mining Company, Cape Nome, Alaska.

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