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John Moore to Mary Kelly on entertainment and crime in his local town, 24 February 1859
Title
John Moore to Mary Kelly on entertainment and crime in his local town, 24 February 1859.
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[Place of production not identified : producer not identified, 1859]
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1 online resource.
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Notes
Collection: The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859.
Moore was an army surgeon on duty during the Utah War, 1857-1861. Kelly was Moore's sister.
Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : AM, 2014. Digitized from a copy held by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
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Summary
Moore comments on local places of leisure: the theater is drawing full houses, and there are two billiard saloons and fifteen or twenty gambling houses. Mentions that knives and pistols are freely used, and that the town helps advance surgical knowledge.
Variant and related titles
American history, 1493-1945. Module I.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 18, 2024
Series
American history module 1
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Genre/Form
Correspondence
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AM (Publisher), digitiser.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, owner.
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