Autograph letter signed

by a Forty-Niner

$2,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

1p., with integral address leaf. Entered the mails with Fort Leavenworth, Mo./June 14 datestamp and matching X rate handstamp. Usual folds, a bit wrinkled. For a letter with the same postmark of the same date, see Risvold 428. Item #376871 Letters by Forty-Niners going overland on the Oregon Trail are scarce, given the limited opportunities to send them. Evidently written to his brother-in-law and sister, the present letter was written from

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