Submitted to the ECHGS by Diana
Frymyer
Used here with their permission
Submitted to this site by Jen Bawden, 4th g-granddaughter of Daniel & Dianah Hoover
All spelling and punctuation appear as it was written. Any clarification will appear in parenthesis
July the 31th 1857
Dear friends, I now take my pen in hand to inform you that I am well at the present and I hope that those few lines will find you in Joying the same blessing and now I will say to you hopeing and trusting that you will believe me and now if you will take my advice you will come away from those oald worn out hill Sides and rocky and mountainous country and come to a leavl country where you can travel as fair as you wish to go in any direction and you will not have to get off of your horse to walk down or up any hill atall and now I will Say to you my dear friends that if you will come hear to kansas territory that you can doo better than you can their and you want have to work any more than half as hard as you do their and if you want to come hear you had better come out as quick as you can for you can get land a gradiel (great deal) cheaper now than you can after awhile for their is a great many persons that have brought land that wants to sell and now is the time to come and get land cheap in kansas and now I will say to you that hear is the place for a laboring man to make money fast and now I will say to you my dear friend that I would like to See you all at all times and as i live a great many miles from you I want you to wright to me a letter and when you wright to me direct your letters to atchison County atchison Postoffice Kansas territory and now I will tell you where I live I live about thirty miels from atchison post office I live in calhoon county in kansas territory and about thirty miles from the river and now I will say to you that the land is just as ritch as land can be but the timber is very scarce here in this country and now I will say to you that any person will will atall can live hear easier than they can their and now I will say to you that I have got Some of the best land that kansas does efford and I only paid one dollar and twenty five cents an acre and i live on Strait creek about four miles from the mouth and the same distance from grasshopper creek and their is a steem mill tere (there) and a town too and Some more at the present time but remains your umble and obligeing friend
from Rachel Estes to Dianer Hoover of Estill Co
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