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In this brief letter, enclosing photographs and a newspaper from Bismarck “to show you what excitement there is here about the Black Hills and Gold,” Wild makes a trenchant remark about the Black Hills Gold Rush - started when General George Custer reported a gold discovery in the summer of 1874 - then underway: “I bet good money” he says, that those flocking to find fortune “will be disappointed by going there.”
Autograph Letter Signed, 2 pages, recto and verso, octavo, Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota Territory, February 6, 1876. To his brother William Wild in Buffalo, New York.
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Ft A Lincoln DT.
Feb 6th 1876
Brother William
Enclosed You [sic] will find 2 of my Picture wich [sic] I had taken [sic] Bill You [sic] will favor me, by sending Me that Picture of mine that Me and Joe Pierce had taken, I also send You a Bismark [sic] paper a few days ago, to show You what Excitement there is here about the Black Hills and Gold but I bet good money will be disappointed by going there
Feb 6th 1876
Brother William
Enclosed You [sic] will find 2 of my Picture wich [sic] I had taken [sic] Bill You [sic] will favor me, by sending Me that Picture of mine that Me and Joe Pierce had taken, I also send You a Bismark [sic] paper a few days ago, to show You what Excitement there is here about the Black Hills and Gold but I bet good money will be disappointed by going there
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I shant [sic] write until I get an answer from this
Your truly
Brother
JOHN WILD
Best Regard to one and all
Give one to mother
and one for Yourself.
What I mean is a Picture!
Your truly
Brother
JOHN WILD
Best Regard to one and all
Give one to mother
and one for Yourself.
What I mean is a Picture!
