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Texas Bend Tx April 2nd 1880 Dear Alice, We got an early star this morning and arrived at this point - from Adobe Walls - between 2 and 3 P.M. distance marched about 23 miles. This is the best camp we have had so far - very good grazing - and we attained two fat beef for the command, which will be a pleasant change from salt meat. From a high prairie or ridge some miles back. The Guadalupe Mountains could be seen to the westward, blue in the distance some 80 miles away. The mountains about Fort Davis could be seen more distantly. The day had

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