Letter signed W.W. Cayton, Fort Laramie, Nebraska, to Alex. Badger, St. Louis. Having just entered upon duty here I am pretty busy. I completed a letter to Brother Frank [M. Cayton] yesterday. There is a train of some eighteen wagons just arrived from Great Salt Lake City, containing some forty or fifty Mormon families, or rather their private effects and their young children. They number near two hundred in all, and I understand the majority of the women walked nearly all the way, a distance of six hundred miles. Individuals mentioned: Sister Alice [Badger Cayton], Cora [Badger Daniels], and Nephew [Charlie Cayton]., 1858 June 25

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From the Collection:

Collection contains material of the St. Louis-based Badger family, including letters of Capt. Alexander Badger, Sr. and Jr.; newsclippings; bonds; steamboat memoranda; a pilot certificate issued to William H. Cable in 1852; envelopes of Wells Fargo and Overland Mail; cards of steamboat Magnolia and a timetable of St. Louis railroads and steamships; material concerning the Badger, Cable and Cayton families; two Missouri defense bonds issued in 186-; and several letters of Alexander Badger, circa 1860, written from Fort Vancouver, Western Territory, and various places in the west, which describe everyday happenings.