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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC05245.39 |
From Archive Folder | Collection of letters of Charles Horsfall |
Title | Charles G. Horsfall to [children] [incomplete] describing the weather, his activities and intention to send them a gold nugget |
Date | ca.11 November 1907 |
Author | Horsfall, Charles G. (fl. 1900-1910) |
Document Type | Correspondence |
Content Description | The snow and storm have made it quite dark. Reports that he periodically gets up to make a fire while Ben tends to the horses and together they bought and share a cross cut saw. The ice stretched 500 feet out from the shore. Says he intended to send them a gold nugget but forgot. Written on Alaska Gold mining Company stationary. |
Subjects | Alaska Gold Rush Frontiers and Exploration Extreme Weather |
People | Horsfall, Charles G. (fl. 1900-1910) |
Place written | [s.l..] |
Theme | Merchants & Commerce |
Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
Additional Information | Writes to his children and wife about Klondike gold fields, mining, life in Alaska, Mormons, and the 1906 election. Horsfall was a Mormon. |
Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
Civil War: Recipient Relationship | Son Daughter |