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Museum Musings – Letters from history, No. 26

White River Agency, Colorado.

March 3, 1879.

Sir: The first part of the last month was stormy and cold, and with deep snow covering the whole country. During the latter part warmer weather prevailed; snow disappeared from most of the valleys, and the roads settled; upon which our wheat was sown on ground plowed last fall, to the extent of our seed, viz, 21 acres, and well harrowed in; a snow of six inches falling…