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Blank Check Collection MT - Virginia City,Madison County - 2012aug - General Americana

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:250.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 1,000.00 USD
Blank Check Collection MT - Virginia City,Madison County - 2012aug - General Americana
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Four blank checks from the Holladay Overland Mail & Express Co. Office in Virginia City, M.T. Produced by Slote & James, Stationers and Printers, 93 Fulton St., N.Y. Checks are dated is 186_. Also included, a six-(legal sized) page diary transcriptions from a pioneer named J.D. Wood. It begins: "I was born in Mercer County, Missouri, in 1841, and in '64 I had a desire to emigrate to the west, but having no money to pay the charges on the stages, I went to Atchinson on the Missouri River, and hired out to Kinney & Howe…" Arriving at the Platte River "we found that the Indians were quite bad, killing the emigrants and running off their stock when opportunity offered." -59106