[Autograph Letter, Signed, by John H. Watson, a Settler in Bleeding Kansas, Reporting on the Beauty of the Territory's Landscape and the Fertility of Its Soil]
Emporia, Ks. March 12, 1859. [4]pp. Original mailing folds, short separations along some folds, a couple of short closed tears, a few tiny nicks to edges. A rare correspondence from Kansas at the time of the free state - slave state tensions in the 1850s. Here, the most important early..... More