Document 46: Letter from Lynn Smith

Herbert Heller Papers, Lynn Smith Correspondence and Letters, Box 1, Archives, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

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Rampart, Alaska
December 17, 1903

Had a crowd of Tanana Indians in for two days. Paid $150 for a Black Fox....Got 8 bear about 50 marten...and red fox....half starved and almost naked all sore eyed and jerking with disease. Leprosy or something of that order.

 

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