Dear Mom, Send Money,

From Short Creek Diggins'

Early letter written from Galena, Kansas in 1877 by Cumberland County native James R. Walker. Walker had gone out to Kansas seeking his fortune there in the lead mines, but went bust and is writing his mother back in Virginia for money to get home. He mentions the difficulties in travel as there was no railroad there yet and would have to go to Chetopah some 28 miles away to catch the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad. The stationery pictures a miner and the words- "Down in a lead mine underneath the ground." also that it was "from City Book Store, Short Creek." 

Southside Virginia Historical Press

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