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zDDCR - CALVERLEY-RUDSTON FAMILY AND ESTATE RECORDS
7 - Family and personal records
9 - Trevor Wheler Calverley-Rudston papers
4 - File of correspondence and printed sources relating to George Calverley-Rudston's time in America with William Cody ('Buffalo Bill')
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DDCR/7/9/4/36
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1 item
Title
Letter from George Calverley-Rudston, Ishawooa, Wyoming to his father, Trevor Wheler Calverley-Rudston
Date
30 Aug 1904
Description
Discusses the weather and the numbers of shootings and murders and that a man was decapitated. When someone is found dead '99 cases out of a hundred nothing is said'. Describes the area and that his ranch is near Castle Rock. Hunting season starts soon. Colonel Starkey and Mr Caldwell are Englishmen who are coming to hunt in Cody. Meat is very scare and is relying on an elk providing some meat for the winter. Government is to impose restrictions on numbers of animals hunted. Foreigners pay $50 for a hunting licence.
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