Letter signed Bob Ford, slayer of Jessie James, to President of the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific R.R. As have forgotten your name and address as President of the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific R.R., will you please grant myself and family a monthly pass over your road from K.C. to Richmond the distance of 45 miles. (Transferred from James B. Eads Papers, April 25, 1957), 1882 Oct 14

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Letter from Bob Ford, "slayer of Jesse James," to the President of Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railroad, October 14, 1882

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Railroads Collection is a subject-based collection that contains correspondence regarding the building of various railroads, traveling on railroads, etc. It also includes timetables and printed matter pertaining to railroads in the United States, mainly in the Midwest and western United States, and a scrapbook of fronts of railroad timetables from the United States dated 1881. In addition, this collection contains a report relating to the transcontinental railroad. Probably a draft, and of unidentified origin, this report relates to plans in the mid-nineteenth century to construct a national Pacific railroad, and, citing the potential of American development in California and Oregon, focuses on the construction of the Missouri portion of this proposed transcontinental railroad.