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Title
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Lawrence Bruner to Marcia Bruner, 1897, Aug. 29
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Alternative Title
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Lawrence Bruner Letters, 1897
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Date
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1897, Aug. 29
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Creator
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Lawrence Bruner
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Description
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Handwritten 10 page letter from Lawrence Bruner to Marcia Bruner, "Since I am way off here 'measly 100 miles from nowhere'..."
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Identifier
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081210-1897-020b
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Transcription
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I came on Friday evening. It appears that the railroads in this out–of–the–way place ran two trains each way weekly. I will have to wait until Tuesday morning before a train goes back. While it is almost like being in prison I am making the best of it and collecting some insects, but even this is rather uphill business since it is now the dry part of the year and but few insects are to be found. The country is the most forlorn looking region that I have thus far been obliged to remain in. I was just about to write that "I have had the pleasure etc." I was out yesterday nearly the entire day and only found about 30 kinds of insects, and today again and added but about 10 others. These I found under the bark of dead trees, under stones and cactuses. A few yesterday were found near the river bed–not the river, for there is but little water and it takes water to make a river I believe.
Well to start with, this line the Cordoba & Northwestern R.R. is quite a picturesque one. It runs through the mountains and is supposed to be something great — like the railroads that run through the mountains of Colorado and other portions of the West. There are also several summer resorts along the line to which people flock during hot weather. Copilla del Monte, the principle of these is about 25 miles above here and to me looks very ordinary. It
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Rights
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