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Collection Reference Number GLC05245.09
From Archive Folder Collection of letters of Charles Horsfall 
Title Charles G. Horsfall to Owen Horsfall describing treatments for frozen body parts and the weather
Date 03 March 1901
Author Horsfall, Charles G. (fl. 1900-1910)  
Recipient Horsfall, Owen  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Describes doctoring Pearson for badly frozen toes, wrists, and cheeks, using carbonized water and Vaseline. Complains about the long winter. "March has come in like a lamb and will probably go out like the proverbial lion."
Subjects Alaska  Gold Rush  Frontiers and Exploration  Health and Medical  Extreme Weather  
People Horsfall, Charles G. (fl. 1900-1910)  Horsfall, Owen (fl. 1900-1910)  
Place written Nome, Alaska
Theme Health & Medicine
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Additional Information Writes to his children and wife about Klondike gold fields, mining, life in Alaska, Mormons, and the 1906 election. Horsfall was a Mormon.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945
Civil War: Recipient Relationship Son