Letter to Emma Moore Wilson, 1868, March 12.

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Letter to Emma Moore Wilson, 1868, March 12.

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Letter from John Bordeaux Wilson to his mother Emma Moore Wilson, written shortly after Wilson had joined the engineering corps of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1868. In the letter, written at Fort Sanders, Dakota Territory, Wilson writes of his dissatisfaction with being removed from Colonel Joseph Opdyke Hudnutt's company and placed instead with a Mr. Lawrence's party, which he writes will "operate much further west" than the other and work east for 250 or 300 miles from the Green River until they meet the other parties. He notes that Colonel Hudnutt's party was headed for the North Platte while John O'Neill's party would work at Medicine Bow, and gives a description of the various supplies carried by each party. The remainder of the letter describes Wilson's attempts to stay warm in his tent and the meals that he has been given. With envelope, marked "Union Pacific Railway Company, Engineer's Office, Fort Sanders - Dakota."

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Wilson, John Bordeaux, b.1848.

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John Bordeaux Wilson was born in Philadelphia on May 7, 1848. He graduated from Philadelphia's Polytechnic College in 1867 with a degree in civil engineering. After graduating he joined the engineering corps of the Union Pacific Railroad and worked in the Dakota Territory and Utah from 1868 to 1869. Following his work on the Union Pacific, Wilson worked as a surveyor in Pennsylvania and joined the U.S. Engineering Corps. He returned to railroad engineering with the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & C...

Wilson, Emma Moore,

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Hudnutt, Joseph Opdyke, 1824-1910.

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Union Pacific Railway Company

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