Governor Thomas MoonlightPapers, 1887-1889

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Governor Thomas MoonlightPapers, 1887-1889

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Governor Thomas Moonlight's correspondence reflects the issuesone would expect a Wyoming Territorial Governor to monitor. Subject matterincludes petitions for pardons, appointments, requisitions and extraditions,livestock, an addition to the penitentiary in Laramie, land laws andsettlement, Indians, militia, game and fish matters, the university, postoffices, and a Fourth of July celebration. Separate series include petitionsand correspondence concerning the organization of Natrona County, and apetition for the organization of Sheridan County. Records dealing with thedisposition of Fort Sanders military reservation land are alsoincluded.

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Thomas Moonlight was born of Scottish farmer parentage, in Forfarshire, Scotland, November 10, 1833. He came to America when he was thirteen years old. After Moonlight turned twenty, he enlisted in the Fourth Artillery C. D., May 17, 1853. The fall of that year he was ordered to Texas and served there until the fall of 1856. Moonlight rose to the rank of orderly sergeant and then settled in Leavenworth County, Kansas in 1860. When the Civil War broke out in 1861 Moonlight raised a l...