Original in National Archives. Includes references to the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Gold Rush, and travel to the West and the East Coast. Contains letter book of Overland Stage Lines. Letter to his wife discussing lack of success in the gold fields and plans to get a job before moving elsewhere. Letters of Mollie A. Garr and her daughter, Alice, of Lafayette County, Missouri to Benjamin Plunkett of Greene County, Virginia.
Letters provide details of rural life in Missouri.
Also Garr and related families genealogical information. Goodwin settled in Jefferson City and opened a grocery. He wrote Custer about life in Missouri, climate, job opportunities, land prices, commodity prices, construction of state capitol, Missouri River, soil, and his grocery business. 1 f. Reminiscences of incidents of his father's trips West in search of gold and return trips, once via Panama and once via Cape Horn. Incidents recalled in connection with the family house in Lexington, Missouri, during the Civil War.