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Your delightfully chatty letter has been a joy to me. It is interesting to know that you once contemplated writing a series of epic books on our Old West. I hope that, when at last you shall come to that castle in Spain, you may not find the occupant too disappointing. You say I shall have "one real reader" if you last out the decade. I wish I had decades to give, for you would receive several herewith if I had.
As to joining up the various tales, which you mention as a difficulty, they are of a piece, all growing out of a single expedition — that of Ashley and Henry up the Missouri in 1822.
Members of that expedition
I have been invited to lecture on the Western Expos. & read from the two parts of my cycle at the University of California and at Leland Stanford. On my way I will do the same at several Normal Schools and at the Nebraska Wesleyan University and University of Wyoming. Good publicity for the series! But enough about this!