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Title: MS 017 - Charles Rapp Collection, 1874-1878

Creator: Rapp, Charles

Extent: 1.0 Boxes

Date Acquired: 09/09/1980

Languages: English [eng]

This collection consists of the 15 letters from Charles Rapp to Eva Shepard written from various locations in Wyoming Territory. Mr. Rapp, of New York, discusses gold mining, women homesteaders on the frontier, Mormon immigration, Shoshone and Sioux Indians, and a description of a visit to the Little Big Horn battlefield three days after the battle.

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Acquisition Source: David B. Laird, Jr.

Acquisition Method: Donation

Related Materials: Digitized Collection of Charles Rapp - MS 017 in Buffalo Bill Center of the West's Digital Collections.  For more information please see http://library.centerofthewest.org/cdm/search/collection/MS017/order/identi/ad/asc

Preferred Citation: Charles Rapp Collection, MS 17, McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Center of the West