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