1 letterhead July 21st 1896 Dear Louie, We arrived here last evening after a hard ride through dust the smoke of furning
forests from Kootenay Lake on the Columbia found your telegram letters from Maggie Helen Yourself which set my moind more
at ease. After leaving Helena wewent to Great Falls on the Missouri by the Great Northern R.R. Thence by a narrow gauge to
Shelby Junction on the Great Northern wehre at Midnight we took the train for Belton going to bed at 1 A M. rising at 4 A.M.
to see the Marias Pass in the Rocky Mtns. It was grand with peak streams forests but O how sleepy we were we arived at Belton
at 5.35. AM 02130