Letter to Mary Maddux Greenley
Archival materials -- Letter;Envelope
Identifier:
2023.42.76Description
a. Letter on lined loose-leaf paper, front and back. Written in pencil. Dated February 11, 1924. Rock Springs, WY. Letter to Mary Maddux Greenley (Casper, WY) from Ralph Maddux (Rock Springs, WY)."Dear Mary I have been wondering all winter where you were and I just got your letter of Nov 8 and of Dec 19 am glad you have a home hope you will like the country after you live there long enough to see what it is I would have beeen there this winter if you had mailed your letter when you wrote it I left Greystone Nov 12 and your letter got there the 13 I was in Rollins the 14 and 15 on the east side of the divide your last letter was from Casper but you were going back to Colo. to feed cattle I laid in Rollins 2 days had a notion to go to Eaton Colo. thought of going to Ft. Laramie then thought I'm not out to visit I'm out to make some coin so it was a stand off between Casper and Rock Springs while I was hesitating I parked my car on the left side of the street like most any country rube might do and I got fined $20.00 dollar for that then I thought to hell with them I'm going where I know some one".
a. Second page of a letter on lined loose-leaf paper, front and back. Written in pencil.
"and they know me I left Rollins at Sundown and made Rock Springs a little before sun up got a job that day came out for supper here I am a lonely bachelor with 165 calves to feed takes me 2 hrs a day I get $65 a month and I got in 2 bronks and he said he would give me a good stetson for breaking them and a government trapper came along and I mooched a bottle of poison from him and I have got 7 coyotes and figure on more and the dog treed a musk rat in some willows and I got his hide I'm having an awful time to kill time made 5 hacimores and I quit and a hair saddle blanket and most always take a nap after dinner am going home about May 10th then I will have to go to work for I have to prove up next Nov. and I have a lot of work to do before I can make proof I have put all my time and money in buildings and fences and ditches and water adjudication and have very little ground broke up am sorry to hear that Grandpa is gone where is Grandma? You said the old fellow was alone I never heard of her going I've been planning on a visit for a long time but too late now R.M.
c. Envelope made from white paper. Postmarked Rock Springs, WY, February 13, 1924, 4pm. Sent to Mrs. A. R. Greenley (Mary Maddux), 935 St. Mary's Street, Casper, Wyo. Sent from "Ralph Maddux % Dave Menkiney Rock Springs, Wyoming". Written on the upper left corner of the front of the envelope in black ink is "ans".
Ralph Maddux is brother to Mary Maddux Greenley.
Content Date:
February 11 1924
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