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Title: Forty-Niner Letters and Diaries - Nevada County Area (PH 17-2)(Undated) Collection Type: Directories and Documents Collection Name: Pamphlets Catalog #: PH 17-2 Author: G. B. Simpson, Joe C. Simpson Published: Undated # of Pages: 35 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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Latter No. 2 St» Joseph, Non May Sthy 2249 Dear Vargarats, i take this opportonity of writing you a fev lines dn haste, Y em well an body and as well in aiad aa could be expested and hove thig ray reash you and find you and our 1itste children enjoying the same blessing, I want yon to veconaiia yoursel? 55 well as you can, IT shail heya to leave here wither’ hearing from jon ainca T lost hor@e I sould have deen glad to hear how you are rasonolied, YF do not think me will cask out. Dock and Reber are going tack I think. Dock nus too easy peared, You will heav a grea$ rany oxaggerated recerba about things here, They talk about 6 or 3 thonsand wR_ONS syorsing here, but from the beat information I can goh two thonsand wi2l covey the whole, This la a sericus yadertaking end I feel more sensible of 43 very day and 1? gold was my chie? objeot I think I vewld not be abla to sustain nysel? in thig hard trial, % Seal ike I hava been partly raid for my trouble, So 2ay thas barting in cy jaw and craek In my neck have ler me and I as very hearty, I da nob kmow when I sbald have ane other opportunity of ariting to you, Takn good cara of yoursel? and the childven, Try and isep some sholory medicine in the houga and be patient and trey to onjoy yournel? as well as yon cam, I thought the children sould be my chie? econcorny, but I think taies of you where I do onto of thee and 2 think of thes very often, YX sasd you to mite to me tn tina Zor to have 2 or 3 lattex in California againat I get thera, You sust write every menth any how after the first of June. I shall send this by Dook, So no mere ab present for the boat is abou stayhing bh CG, Bp Simpson Latter Re, 3 Fort, Rall, July the 23, 2849 Deap Margaret, aa $o you from Port Laramie informing you of the loss of om teobher, Lawis J, I now hava sore gratizication in latting yoll know that wa hava bass inforned his body waa found a foe days ater he wae dromed by a Doctor Sama and Oo, from Peorla, Illinois, and waa given a dceons turial ag aireumstances mould admis Ya have net seon ay of the company ourselves, tab & gentlemenanho sav the Dostoy informed ua of the cireunstance, the youd Sor the last 4 or 3 hundred miles had Jad through the somtaing and 4a far the mos% interesting part over which we have traveled, Yestardey va passed what i3 Called the beer or soda springs. They arg a great curosizy, The water holla, similar te water in a pot, Cre of then 3a galled Steamtoa’ Spring, “he weter of this da milk mum ond ts threwm up sere distance, Ths water of othera is quite sold, YF drank fraaly of “his vater, It has quite a sour taste, Soda drinkers call 1% goed séaa uatas, Indisng, bu?lale and grisaly csar are very seavea. I have esen bub four buffaloes, some Indisns tus no beer, Our company bave kilie® 3 mffale. Jom was in the chase, The road has be naoh better generally than I expected over the plains, and almost all the may to the south Paaa the road 1a goed,In ond near the rags tha read ia smooth and is not as brokan as the mad from Literty to Guingy, but since wa struck the baar eiver mourtaing ge hava had some ag Feeds but we have core te mo hill yet that ue have hud to doubla teana nor have Fo troka dom a vagen and have loat but tyro oxen, Ya lost one ont oF our ton, but avery cone Dany haa act baen so inelkky for we have seen a% leayt te or thyes bimdred Geed sheers on tt soud, The a2s% of these cattle have been lost by exrelosganssy Jn latting them drink Poisonous mater, The road in some places cresents a wreok of ruins in catils, wagens, and Provigiona, ‘Vanz started with too meh load and hava heen commaliisd to throw ous, I hava.