Letters of Genl. W.J. Palmer, treasurer from Colorado & New Mexico, 1867.

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Letters of Genl. W.J. Palmer, treasurer from Colorado & New Mexico, 1867.

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This letterbook by William Jackson Palmer, treasurer of the Kansas Pacific Railroad, was created while surveying a southern route along the 35th parallel to the Pacific for the Kansas Pacific line, Union Pacific Railroad, Eastern Division from Colorado and New Mexico. This volume contains 229 pages of handwritten copies of outgoing and incoming correspondence dated August 5, 1867 to October 7, 1867, a two-page index, and a botanical specimen laid in. Many letters are to John D. Perry, President of Kansas Pacific Railroad. Also included are notes regarding distances, routes and geology. Palmer and his secretary, W.F. Colton, in whose hand these letters are probably written, left Trinidad, Colorado, August 7, and spent August through October covering the territory from the Raton passes through the Red River Valley to Ft. Union, Las Vegas, Santa Fe, Albuquerque and down the Rio Grande to Ft. Craig.

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Southern Methodist University DeGolyer Library

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