Bryan, John Neely, letters, 1856, 1858.

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Bryan, John Neely, letters, 1856, 1858.

Correspondence to Alexander Cockrell in Dallas, Texas, concerns Bryan's situation in 1856 while with a Cherokee friend, Jesse Chisholm, in the Creek Nation and in 1858 while working in gold mines at Jamestown, California and discusses his desire to return to Dallas to his wife and family.

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