Letter signed John P. Gates, St. Louis, to William Clark, September 6, 1813
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- Clark Family Collection | <emph render="bold">William Clark Series</emph> | Letter signed John P. Gates, St. Louis, to William Clark. John Johnson, U.S. factor, wishes Gates to accompany him up the Missouri to trade and interpret with the Sauk, Fox, and others; has been employed for five years at the rate of “one dollar and one ration per day”; requests a raise in pay. Governor Lewis had promised to do something for him when he returned from Washington, “but unluckily never returned to this place.”, 1813 Sept 6
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