Oliver Vie letter to Grace discussing Armstrong Ranch - n.d.
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Armstrong Texas Dear sister you letter received and was more than pleased to hear from you i am at Armstrong ranch agan 42 miles from Kingston [Texas] everything is well down here at the present time have not been feeling well latley for over a month but feel better the last five days the weather is warm down here one day it gets hot and make the next day it gets chilly it is a mean climate say they was keeping us pretty busy
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[page 2] in Kingsville [Texas] lately but this ranch job down here is the easyest thing i ever struck yet there is nine of us here. There is just two white men besides our selfs and about 100 mexicans living in cars working for the railroad nothing but said hill just the same as the Norias place which is just 9 miles south of here. There or puting the men on the reserve at the end of 4 year but one can not tell when they may
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[page 3] call then back. Then the Militia is all order back from the border with trouble in Cuba and then with germany and still raiding the border one can expect all most any thing i only hope they clean up on then germans on the other side i gues they got a lot to do with the mexican trouble down here Well sister i am going to close hoping this finds you all well
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[page 4] i remain you loving brother Ollie
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| Title | Oliver Vie letter to Grace discussing Armstrong Ranch - n.d. |
| Creator | Vie, Oliver |
| Source | Vie, Oliver. Letter to Grace discussing Armstrong Ranch. n.d. Oliver Vie Papers, 1913-1919. A2285. Missouri History Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | Oliver Vie was born January 28, 1887, in St. Louis, Missouri. After working for several years in a shoe factory, he enlisted in the army in October 1913, Company K, 26th Infantry. He served along the Mexican border before going with the first contingent to France in June 1917. He fought in the battles of Cantigny and Soissons and was wounded in action and died July 20, 1918. In this letter to his sister Grace, Vie discussed the weather, his illness, and working at Armstrong Ranch. |
| Subject LCSH | United States. Army. Infantry regiment, 26th; Punitive Expedition by the United States Army into Mexico, 1916; Railroad; Bandits; Lavaca River (Tex.) |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I; Lavaca river bridge |
| Site Accession Number | A2285 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | c.a. 1913-1916 |
| Language | English |