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Colorado ledger books and documents

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Description
Two record books and assorted documents related to Colorado history. Included are a cash book kept by the Hussey Mining Company from 1879-1880, an unidentified grocer's account book, a certificate of commission for M.B. Bearce as Major General of Militia for the Territory of Colorado (1872) signed by governor Edward M. McCook, and an unidentified letter to the editor written on Colorado Agricultural Society letterhead. Also included are some miscellaneous newspaper clippings from the 1870s.
Type
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Call number
mssHM 74735-74738
Provenance
Gift of the heirs of the Katharine F. Burnham estate through Lyndley Bynum, March 23, 1939.
Associated people
McCook, Edward M. (1833-1909.)
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