Commercial Hotel Mrs. A. Keirle, Proprietress Rock Springs, Wyo. May 16, 1908 Dear Bertie: I left Rawlins this a.m. at 8:30 and got here at 12:30 p.m. after a long, uneventful ride of 120 miles over prairie, sage brush and rocks. This is a coal mining and railroad town, and from its outlook I do not expect much from it. I will be here Monday and will leave sometime Tuesday for Pocatello, Ida., and I am not sorry to get out of Wyoming, as it is not a very attractive country, and I think if I had to stay here a great while that I would get the “jim jams.” I am stuck on Washington so far as I have seen this interior country, and next to it is northern Idaho and Montana. I am homesick, I guess, and really feeling that I am away from you so long. I hope that there may be some lucky turn of the wheel that will place me in a position that I can be at home. There is no place like it for me. This evening, in company with two other men, one from N.Y. City and the other from Chicago, we visited one of the leading gambling joints here, this being one of the “wildest towns” of the wild west. There was all kinds of gambling going on, and all kinds of people engaged. This has been pay day at the coal mines, and money seemed quite plentiful. It all seemed like a bad dream to me, and I would have no desire to repeat the visit. It is all so depraved, and there is too much of the “other side” to it, to suit me. This feature of the west is the part that does not appeal to me. But in many towns they are closing up these dives, and in a few weeks this town will be closed. I have seen nothing of interest today, aside from the saloons. But I have thought a great many times of you, and that is always out of the ordinary for me, and my most pleasant reflections are always of you and my dear ones at home. I am looking forward with a great deal of pleasure to my next home coming, and I am hoping you may all be in good shape, and happy when I get back to you. Now my dear, I will close and go to bed, hoping I may have pleasant dreams of you and our dear little ones. With lots of hugs and kisses for you and them, with my dearest love, I am lovingly yours, Geo. A. D.