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Headquarters District of the Pecos, In the field. printed letterhead

Gardner's Ranch Hd of Seven Rivers - New Mexico.

Apl 29th 1880. "1880." printed

My Dear Alice.

I wrote to you last on the 20th inst. from the Mescalero Agency--just before starting on our return trip to Texas.

We have scouted the Sacramento Mountains - & the Country between those Mts. & the Guadalupe Mts -- in a very thorough manner - Killed & buried one Indian - & captured a lot of horses - on the 20th and Struck a small camp of Indians on the Evening of the 23d at the Hd of the Sacramento River - unclear all to gather on the Peñasco River on the 26th & on the 27th Commenced a Combined Movement