2005-03
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/28/2005
Autograph Letter Signed "Rufus Ingalls", 10 pages, quarto, November 29, 1857, Fort Vancouver, Washington Territory to Colonel Thomas Swards, San Francisco, California. A very detailed report concerning the logistics of maintaining a military presence along wagon routes between California and Utah. Included is a mileage chart. The letter reads in very small part:"...Events may render it neccessary to dispatch troops in the early spring to Utah from this Military Department, and I trust you will not hold me as being too forward or officious if I enclose you descriptive lists of some of the immigrants routes from this coast to the Great Salt Lake City - as observed by me in 1855...It will be difficult to find any road leading from California to the Great Lake of less than 900 or 1000 miles in length...". Very Fine condition.
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