Letter, 1956.

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Letter, 1956.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49000429

Typescript letter concerning Langford hoax, signed, to Earle Connette of Moscow, Idaho, concerning a footnote in Osborne Russell's Journal of a trapper (with biography and maps by Haines); also a letter from Connette to Haines.

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