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Conger Reynolds correspondence, September 1918
1918-09-01 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 2
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spent a half-hour surveying the miles of valley below. After that I explored the piney woods awhile and came back along the brook breathing the odor of hay that lay in fresh piles on the meadow. From then on more work, dinner, a brief clean-up, and here I am. I've been looking at the pictures some more. Whoever took 'em certainly did a good job, - and that in an artistic way as well as technical. You'll not often find amateur photographs better chosen as to scenes and the way the camera picks them out than the three of the "King and Queen", Devil's Gulch, and the Soo. Incidentally that scenery is right attractive; I'll have to see it sometime. It was not until my second look that I noticed the folks on the rocks and on the bridge. You certainly are a long way up there in both. I'm thinking of taking a look at the pictures with my field glasses to see if I can make out at a distance whoozoo. Your historical footnotes are very illuminating. I worry somewhat because you don't say whether Jesse James was drowned that time he jumped in the Gulch and don't explain how Andy Jackson got from the
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spent a half-hour surveying the miles of valley below. After that I explored the piney woods awhile and came back along the brook breathing the odor of hay that lay in fresh piles on the meadow. From then on more work, dinner, a brief clean-up, and here I am. I've been looking at the pictures some more. Whoever took 'em certainly did a good job, - and that in an artistic way as well as technical. You'll not often find amateur photographs better chosen as to scenes and the way the camera picks them out than the three of the "King and Queen", Devil's Gulch, and the Soo. Incidentally that scenery is right attractive; I'll have to see it sometime. It was not until my second look that I noticed the folks on the rocks and on the bridge. You certainly are a long way up there in both. I'm thinking of taking a look at the pictures with my field glasses to see if I can make out at a distance whoozoo. Your historical footnotes are very illuminating. I worry somewhat because you don't say whether Jesse James was drowned that time he jumped in the Gulch and don't explain how Andy Jackson got from the
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