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- GLC#
- GLC05755.010-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 27 July 1900
- Author/Creator
- Sherzer, Edwin B., fl. 1900-1902
- Title
- to Clara M. Miller
- Place Written
- Nome, Alaska
- Pagination
- 10 p. : envelope Height: 23.6 cm, Width: 16 cm
- Primary time period
- Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
Says he was on a "prospecting tour." Says she wouldn't recognize him with bronzed hands, two weeks' beard, etc. Prices & problems making money: "I feel very much disheartened and discouraged and if things do not turn out better I don't know what we are going to do. We will live but that is about all. Men up here are getting in such desperate straits, they have begun to rob and murder [. . . .] We sleep with our revolvers right where we can get our hands on them [. . . .]" Mentions pneumonia epidemic among Indians at Safety; describes beauties in the wilds: "it makes you awe stricken to gaze at all these wonderful sights." Describes "Esquimaux" habits and housing.
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