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Heading: AAA(Alaska)
Author: Robinson, Wm.
Title: Letter from an Alaska gold rush prospector
Place: Skagway, AK
Publisher:
Date: 1901
Item # : 200542
Sale Number   403
Lot Number   1
Sale Name    
Americana with Manuscript Material; Travel & Exploration; Maps; Photographs
Sale Date   05/14/2009
Sale Time   1pm PST
Low Estimate   $ 300
High Estimate   $ 500
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Description:
2½ page letter plus ½ page postscript on 1½ sheets. 10x7¾ & 6¾x7¾.
Robinson writes to a Mr. Burrell of his travels during the Alaskan gold rush: "I did not go to Nome I though I did not have money enough to go there & do any prospecting and I staid a way from Nome and I went up to Juno Alaska...I seen people from Bute & from California and no body was making any thing...I went to White Pass & prospected a while & recorded one claim but I doant think it is any good..."
Condition:
Creased from mailing; very good.
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