Lot
2032 
(Santa Fe Trail) "Santa Fe New Mexico, October 11th 1847", dateline on folded letter endorsed "Politeness of Capt. Turner" to Belleville Ill. reading "I send you by Capt. Turner and Lieut. Roper of our Regiment, a Puebla bow and with it sixteen arrows. The Puebla Indians are the descendants so Montezuma's old subjects, and are much finer and braver race of people than the Spaniards, at the battle of Taos, which was fought last winter they stood till they were bayoneted while Mexicans ran a that sight ofa gun. They use the bow and lance pretty generally. The whites now not being willing to sell them guns though this bow and arrows have been used a little they are yet good…I have a great many other things to send, but the express wishing to have as slight a load as possible…I also send you, the Doubloons…" and signed Wm. H. Snyder, fresh and Very Fine.
Estimate $1,000 - 1,500.
Lt. William H. Snyder is a collector sending home native items from the Pueblo Indians.