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Joseph H. Trego, en route via steamboat to Kansas City, wrote to his wife Alice in Rock Island, Illinois. Trego commented on the unpredictable and perilous conditions of steamboat travel on the Missouri River due to snags and sandbars, but despite these, admitted that the journey itself had "little to claim his attention." He feared that his wife might have an accident in his absence, and asked her to wait until he returned to "indulge her spirit." Trego, though he missed his family, was comforted by their miniatures (small portraits).
Creator: Trego, Joseph H. (Joseph Harrington), 1823-1905
Date: Around September, 1857
Item Number: 5642
Call Number: Joseph Harrington Trego Coll. #523 Box 1 Folder 1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 5642
Business and Industry - Labor - Domestic servants
Collections - Manuscript - Trego, Joseph Harrington
Date - 1854-1860 - 1857
Home and Family - Daily life - Settlement
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable Kansans - Trego, Joseph Harrington
People - Women
Places - Cities and towns - Mound City
Places - Cities and towns - Sugar Mound
Places - Counties - Linn
Places - Other States - Illinois
Places - Rivers - Missouri
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Transportation - Water - Steamboats
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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