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Albert Morton wrote from Leavenworth City, Kansas Territory, to Hiram Hill in Massachusetts. Morton reported that there was "a good deal of excitement out for Pikes Peak" and many Leavenworth citizens spoke of traveling there to dig for gold the following spring. His investments were not earning him much money, and he expressed his desire to sell land in order to pay what he owed to Hill and Abelard Guthrie.
Creator: Guthrie, Abelard
Date: January 8, 1859
Item Number: 3288
Call Number: Hiram Hill Coll. #382 Box 1 Folder 8
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 3288
Business and Industry - Mining and quarrying - Gold
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies
Collections - Manuscript - Hill, Hiram
Community Life - Town development
Date - 1854-1860 - 1859
Environment - Natural resources - Gold
Home and Family - Daily life - Health and Hygiene
Home and Family - Daily life - Settlement
Military - Wars - Bleeding Kansas
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable Kansans - Hill, Hiram
Places - Cities and towns - Leavenworth
Places - Cities and towns - Quindaro
Places - Counties - Leavenworth
Places - Counties - Wyandotte
Places - Other States - Colorado
Places - Other States - Massachusetts
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Transportation - Railroads - Companies
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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