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(UTAH TERRITORY.) CARTER, WILLIAM A. Manuscript ledger, Carter's account book listing purchases and sales at Fort Bridger in Utah Territory. 257 pages. Folio, contemporary calf, a bit worn. Fort Bridger, 1859-66
(UTAH TERRITORY.) CARTER, WILLIAM A. Manuscript ledger, Carter's account book listing purchases and sales at Fort Bridger in Utah Territory. 257 pages. Folio, contemporary calf, a bit worn. Fort Bridger, 1859-66
- Notes: contains a wealth of information regarding trade at the frontier post. After the Mormon Wars, Fort Bridger (located about 30 miles north of the present-day Wyoming/Utah border) was occupied by Albert Sidney Johnson and the U. S. Army. William A. Carter arrived with Johnson in 1858 as the fort's sutler. Describing Carter and his store in his 1869 book the Great West, James F. Rustling wrote: "Gradually his sutler-store had grown to be a trade-store with the Indians, and passing emigrants; and in 1866 he reported his sales at $100,000 per year, and increasing. He was a shrewd, intelligent man, with a fine library and the best eastern newspapers, who had seen a vast deal of life in many phases on both sides of the continent, and his hospitality was open-handed and generous even for a Virginian." In this account book, Carter's entries end in 1866, but are continued in another hand from 1869-73.
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