Lot
167 
(Trail Letter) Fort Laramie, N.T. Cds tying 1857 3¢ dull red, type I on 1857 cover to Wisconsin with original enclosure datelined "N.T. June 4, 1857", letters includes, I wrote to you at Omaha and started within an hour for California, now an in Platte River Valley, about 145 miles from Omaha. This valley is very large and wide and thinly settled. We have traveled over sixty miles without seeing a sight of human being, not even an Indian, with the exceptions of one mail station and the road we are now beginning to get into the buffalo country, besides there are elk, antelope and deer, I have heard…There is a great emigration this year, both to Oregon and to California, across the plains. the letter goes on to mention some towns along the trail, cover with small nick & tear at top, F.-V.F. Estimate $200 - 300.
Realized: $400