These letters are from the Charles B. Moore Collection. They are written by J. Sabina Rucker to her brother, Charles B. Moore. In this letter, Sabina updates Charles on the Rucker family and details the country around her. She notes that while in the country she saw cowboys herding fifteen hundred cattle to New Mexico. The topic of this first letter moves to correspondences she had begun writing to Henry or Solomon. She discusses their travel and lodging plans and then closes the letter. Her brief, second letter was written on June 16, 1888. She discusses a house the family is looking at and notes that they saw a pack of dogs as they were coming into town. She details some news about a family friends and closes the letter because of the misting rain. The envelope is included with the letters.

A photograph print of Santa Fe (ATSF) 1377, 4-6-2 (BLW, class 1337), and 3764, 4-8-4, on passenger train #23. "Grand Canyon Ltd.", Las Vegas, NM. [Scrapped in 1940]

A photograph print of Santa Fe (ATSF) 1377, 4-6-2 (BLW, class 1337), and 3764, 4-8-4, on passenger train #23. "Grand Canyon Ltd.", Las Vegas, NM. (P.G. note: copy of a picture I took - negative [#] 28) [Scrapped in 1940]

A photograph print of Santa Fe (ATSF) 1377, 4-6-2 (BLW, class 1337), and 3764, 4-8-4, on passenger train #23. "Grand Canyon Ltd.", passing Starvation Peak, southwest of Las Vegas, NM. [Scrapped in 1940]

A photograph print of Santa Fe (ATSF) 3826, 2-10-2 (BLW, class 3800), on a freight train, Las Vegas, NM. [see also 2008.008.2086-7 & 6209]

A photograph print of Santa Fe (ATSF) 3826, 2-10-2 (BLW, class 3800), on a freight train, Las Vegas, NM. [see also 2008.008.2086-7 & 6208] [This photo developed at Houstin Payne photography, 120-1/2 Broadway, Shawnee, OK]

A photograph print showing the narrow gauge Denver & Rio Grande Western (DRGW) 471, 2-8-2 (Alco, class K-28), on the turntable, Chama, NM.

A photograph print showing the narrow gauge Denver & Rio Grande Western (DRGW) 481, 2-8-2 (BLW, class K-36), Chama, NM.

A photograph print showing the narrow gauge Denver & Rio Grande Western (DRGW) 487, 2-8-2, Chama, NM.

A photograph print showing Denver & Rio Grande Western (DRGW) wooden drop-bottom gondola #763, Chama, NM.

A photograph print showing Denver & Rio Grande Western (DRGW) wood-sided observation car "Alamosa" on rear of Train No. 116 at Chama, NM. (note drumhead and marker lamps)

Letter from T. M. Carruthers to Mrs. E. D. Cavin discussing her son's admission status.

Letter from Isaac Herbert Kempner to Webb Young handing an order and check for $5.00 covering the cost for four ties which he requests them to ship at their early convenience.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Lev. H. Prichard Jr., millionaire Oklahoma City and San Antononio Texas, oilman died Friday strapped to a cot in hospital plane that burst into flames as it landed on an emergancy strip in Hachita N. M."

Letter from Thos. L. James to D. W. Kempner discussing a solution to the type of hay being secured to send to Plantersville in replace of hay from Sugar Land.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "One of three supersonic frogs just flown past the sound barrier by North American Aviation test pilot Joe Lynch is examined by Captain Robbie Risner, Korean eight-kill jet ace, Clovis Air Force Base, Kathleen Hughes, Universal Pictures actress who soon will appear in the forthcoming 3-D fantasy, "It Came From Outer Space" and Bill Collins, ringmaster for the Jumping Frog Jubilee to be held at Angels Camp in the Mother Lode Country, May 15-16-17."

Discussing the occurrence of Visible Uranium minerals in the Morrison Formation of the Nacimiento Mountains.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about four men being hospitalized following a plane crash.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story giving the daily sports highlights.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about environmental protection agency which says that more than 6 million 500 thousand gallons of petroleum products was spilled and wasted during the past fiscal year in Texas.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the environmental protection agency which reported that more than 6 and half million gallons of petroleum products which were spilled or wasted during the past fiscal year in Texas.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a Santa Fe fright train which plowed into a stalled car near Cleburne.