SELECTED LETTERS FROM THE BLANKE FAMILY. 1908 TO 1967
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Compiled June 3, 1996 by Gordon C Blanke
Copyright 1996 by Gordon C. Blanke
Brea, California
All commercial rights reserved
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The following letters were preserved by Gordon C. Blanke, son of
Theodore L. Blanke, in 1996 and particularly witness the
explosive period of homesteading, settlement, and growth in
Arizona and the west. As you'll read in Gordon's forward, he
transcribed these letters for non-commercial use in posterity.
Gordon died only five years later in 2001, but electronic and
xeroxed copies of his letters circulated widely in the Blanke
family.
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30 years later, I have never seen an electronic copy of these
letters, and the xeroxed copies have been copied so many times
that OCR has difficulty reading them. Therefore, I'm committing
them once again to posterity by transcribing them and posting
them in gopherspace, where they will no doubt be read by someone,
some day. Actually, this gopherhole will be the primary
repository, with www to follow in the future.
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As Gordon will say in his own words, some liberties have
been taken by him in transcribing idiosyncratic old-timey
writing, and I have also touched up the organization of some of
his editorializing to make it less intrusive. Gordon's editorials
are marked Ed.; mine (exceedingly rare) are marked IR. I have not
altered any meaning. OCR might have swapped some commas for
periods, but it should be relatively accurate. Enjoy!
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iroll@sdf.org
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(TXT) Foreword by Gordon C. Blanke
(TXT) 19080226 ES Blanke
(TXT) 19101016 ES Blanke
(TXT) 19101024 JE Metz
(TXT) 19101030 ES Blanke
(TXT) 19101125 ES Blanke
(TXT) 19110316 ES Blanke
(TXT) 19110604 ES Blanke
(TXT) 19110724 ES Blanke
(TXT) 19120224 ES Blanke
(TXT) 19130302 ES Blanke
(TXT) 19130317 ES Blanke
(TXT) 19160722 ES Blanke
(TXT) 19171017 ES Blanke
(TXT) 19210430 DE Draves
(TXT) 19210816 ES Blanke