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Finding No	DDCR/7/9/4/38
Extent	1 item
Title	Letter from George Calverley-Rudston, Ishawooa, Wyoming to his father, Trevor Wheler Calverley-Rudston
Date	19 Oct 1904
Description	Comments upon shooting at Hayton. Winter has set in in Wyoming and temperatures can reach 30 or 40 degrees below zero. Speaks of Colonel Starkey and Caldwell. Buffalo Bill arrives on 3 November with ten Englishmen to hunt including Prince Francis of Teck.. George himself has been invited to join the hunt. Other names mentioned are Captain Corfield and his son and Mr Stanley. When Cody [Buffalo Bill] arrives the whole countryside mobs him. His wage bill is $8,000 a month and he owns thousands of cattle and horses. Mentions Buffalo Bill's wife. People keep putting up wire fences which increases journey times. Everything costs at least a dollar and prices are going up and living on a ranch costs nothing. There is an unlimited demand for chickens and eggs.
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