TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, illustrated The Strater Hotel letterhead, August 4, 1973. Letter to H. H. Mathisen, in full: "Thanks for the kind words. Your letter arrived just as I was taking off for the hills, so I am answering it from Durango. So far there has been much work on the typewriter and only a little hiking, although yesterday I was up around 11,000 ft., scouting some country. Actually, looking back over some country I have explored before. I wanted to see it from a different aspect. I shall be doing several like FLINT and REILLY'S LUCK soon. My next Sackett will bring the family from England to the U.S. in 1602, and the first part will take place in England, in Cambridgeshire. You see, I have started to relate the story of the frontier in America, and largely through the eyes of three families: Sackett, Chantry, and Talon. The first begin in England and Wales, the second in Ireland, the third in Brittany, and all come to America at an early date and later the families will intermarry. As you might have read RIDE THE DARK TRAIL you know that Em Talon in that book was a Sackett. NORTH TO THE RAILS and THE FERGUSON RIFLE were about Chantrys. You might be interested to know that the trails followed by Reilly and Val in escaping from Austria are real trails, as all of mine are. You probably will not find them on a map unless you have a mountain climbers' map which might have them. They have been used by smugglers, but by few others. I am working on a book in which you might be interested, although in Canada the subject is still, in some areas, controversial. I am doing a novel on Louis Riel. My grand parents on my father's side were Canadian, French and Irish as they were on my mother's also. Thanks for writing. I always enjoy hearing from readers." In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope.
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