Letter signed P. Wiles to Col. N.G. Elliott, Leavenworth City. It is pretty hard for me to come to any conclusion what is going to be done in the stock trade this spring. At present there seems to be a great deal of stir and stock about Pikes Peak. Quite a large number are going through this city. Some with outfits with them, a few buying their outfits here, but the most of them are going to fit out at the various points up the Missouri River. There is more stock bought in and about St. Louis for California than there is for the Pikes Peake trade. Availability of mules, costs, transportation. Individuals mentioned: Capt. McPike and Col. Mitchell. Places mentioned: Salt Lake., 1859 Mar 29

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The collection includes correspondence relating to the mule, horse, and cattle trade; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Pike's Peak; and California. It also includes muster rolls and other materials of the 1st Company, 14th Regiment, 1st Battalion, Missouri Militia from the Mormon War of 1838, in which Elliott was commander; slavery papers, land deals, and medical and merchandise bills; transactions concerning the outfitting of the Santa Fe trade; promissory notes; papers relating to Howard County, including materials regarding runaway enslaved people, estates, criminal matters, and a certified list of registered voters of Franklin election district (October 28, 1872); account books containing notes on mules purchased, expenditures, deposits, and other financial notes; figures on cattle shipment; a recipe book; some materials relating to the Civil War; several bound volumes that include two account books of C.L. Elliott in Quincy, Illinois, in partnership with Robert C. Spencer (after May 1, 1885), consisting of nine separate accounts of varied business interests, including livestock, grain and produce, real estate, and lumber, 1885-1886; four account books of Hugh Elliott regarding general stores in Boonville (1848), Lyons (1849), and Estill (1870, 1899-1912), Missouri; a ledger of grocery and general merchandise accounts of the firm N.G. and J.W. Elliott, in Boonville, Missouri, 1837-1839, with clippings regarding 1844 Howard County elections; and a ledger of mule, horse, and cattle trade business of Elliott and Smith (Newton G. Elliott and William Smith, partners), Boonville, 1853, with partnership dissolution agreement, 1854.