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C.A. Mont May 9 1886

Dear Rogers,

Yours of 3rd from Omaha recd this mail. I wrote you some days since at Col Springs and also at Ogden telling you that I could meet you in Helena Mont, but not at Ogden if I get your telegram in the evening I leave for Custer Station next morning by stage at 6 AM and take the train for Helena that eve getting in about the next AM. I believe from Ogden to C.A. is a three days journey two days by R.R. and about one day by stage to Helena over Utah N. R.R. to Custer Station by N. P. R.R. and to Aprez? by stage a from 7 AM until 4 PM stage time? from Custer Station to the Agency. We will be very glad to see you but you must make up your mind to take frontier fare. We can give you a comfortable bed and I wish to God I could say so much for the board. You know that any luxury here is worth about its weight in silver, and our salamis? won't stand the unclear. If you go east over the N. P. R. R. I will ride with you to Custer Station from Helena almost 350 miles. You can ride to the agency in less than a day and can return the next day if you have the curiosity to see how we exist My wife will be delighted to see you and I should be very glad to have you see her. She would accompany me to Helena with pleasure but her health would not admit of such a hurried trip. And in a month she is going unclear