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1 in margin: If you write as soon as you get this or a few days afterwards address me at Helena Montana Also address me
a letter at Mamoth Springs Yellowstone Park letterhead July 5th 1896 My dear Wanda. I am now fairly on my way west
again a thousand miles nearer you than I was a few days ago. We got here this morning after a long ride from Chicago. by we
I mean Proffessors Sargent, Brewer Hague General Abbott--all interesting wise men grand company. it was dreadfully hot the
day we left Chicago but it rained before morning of the 4th so that day was dustless cool the ride across Iowa was delightful
That state is very fertile beautiful The cornfields wheatfields are 02118 2 letterhead boundless or appears so as
we skim through them on the cars. all are rich bountiful looking flowers in bloom line the roads tall grasses bushes the surface
of the ground is rolling with hills beyond hills many of them crowned with trees I never before knew that Iowa is so beautiful
unexhaustibly rich. Nebraska is monotonously level like a green grassy sea-no hills or mountains in sight for hundreds of
miles illegible two are cornfields without end full of promise this year after three years of famine from drouth. South Dakota
is dry desert like until you get into the Black Hills, that 02118