(Frontier Letter) Interesting Union veteran's letter to noted collector John Boos, 2pp. 8vo., Long Beach, ca. 1900 D. R. Beebe gives his recollections of Lincoln and his war service: ...As to seeing the great Author of the Emancipation proclamation, I never had that pleasure... a few months spent on the Plains, my Co. being the first to start Fort Hays near which in those days was nothing but Buffalo, Wolves, prairie Dogs and occasionally some marauding Redskins A few chips at top margin, very far from text.