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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1875
Page
3
A brief notice summarizes a local printing shop offering commercial job printing services with emphasis on large papers and varied kinds. The item notes availability of fast turnaround and competitive pricing for businesses and individuals.
A detailed Cheyenne overview describes geography from Crow Creek to Fort Russell, with depot facilities, a government wagon shop and several trades. It notes 3,000 residents, five churches, a two story school building built in 1871, and outlines numerous merchants in hardware, groceries, dry goods, clothing, liquor, furniture, boots and jewelry.
The text notes that four and six horse outfits from Bal Sehattler Studebaker Murphy and Fapenchied make are common and stocked with bows and covers. It mentions numerous boarding houses tailor shops barber shops and small retail stores in Cheyenne ready to outfit travelers for Brack Hills or Northern Wyoming at lower cost. A stock market exists for horses mules and cattle and firms like Ward Ablner Barnard Tracy are active in stock dealings. Those arriving in Cheyenne can save time money and effort purchasing mining outfits locally.
A lengthy roll calls numerous officers from Co A through Co M of the 2nd, 3rd, and 8th Cavalry plus infantry and staff at Fort. Sheridan listing Captains, Lieutenants, majors and adjutants including Dewes OBrien Pierson Hall Allison Egan Sibley Vroon Whitman Reynolds King Mills Schwatke Russell Lee Sheraton Bennett Bourke Bourke Gibbons Knox and others with postings to posts and recruiting services.
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