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From: Carter <>
Subject: Re: Goin West Lookup Offer
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 23:44:15 -0800


If you could, would you please see if there is any information on Lewis
Best. He left Pleasant Grove, Missouri about 20 April 1850 and came to
the gold fields. He ran a hotel in Nevada city for about 2 years, until
it burned down.
Thank you for any help.
Judy

Martha wrote:
>
> I have for the next two weeks volumes 1 and 2 of Goin' West by Richard
> Nelson. I will look up three names per request. Here is the citation:
>
> Goin' West: A record of some who went west 1830-1880
> Richard and Alice Nelson
> Box 4575
> Oceanside, CA 92054
> c1987
>
> each entry cites a source, and the author recommends that you also consult
> that source because in many cases there are additional references to the
> individual they did not include in Goin' West because of space limitations.
>
> If you want to get the book yourself, I got it through ILL at my library.
> This copy came from Mid-Continent Public Library, Independence MO
>
> Martha
> near Seattle

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