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Writing from Beach Valley (Rice County) in Kansas Territory, A. J. Beach requests Samuel Wood's legal advice with regard to Beach's options in a bridge dispute. It seemed that Beach had received a charter to build a toll bridge [over Cow Creek], and another party (William Edwards, et al) put up a "temporary" one before his was finished. They were now diverting traffic away from Beach's completed bridge. "I wish to know if anything can be done with them at law . . ."
Creator: Beach, A. J.
Date: April 22, 1860
Item Number: 90357
Call Number: Samuel N. Wood Coll. #548
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 90357
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Lawyers
Collections - Manuscript - Wood, Samuel N.
Date - 1854-1860 - 1860
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable Kansans - Wood, S. N. (Samuel Newitt)
Places - Cities and towns - Beach Valley
Places - Counties - Rice
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Transportation - Roads & Highways - Bridges
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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