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Cimarron 1872
By Matt RHistory
Cimarron 1872 episodes
- Episode 42 - “There was a saloon opened at the back of our house on Saturday”
This is a very special episode because I am in Cimarron, not just that but I am in the house where Henry and his family lived and where he wrote many of these letters. This letter dated the 5th February 1872 that I missed reading earlier in the series because I mis-read the date. So I am sitting in what Henry called Java House but which is now known as the Grand National B & B, I have Henry’s actual letter in my hands ...
4 min - Episode 41 - “The ground sticks to you like newly toasted cheese”
And we’re back after our short break, a break that, for me, was very exciting. Over the last couple of weeks I have been to Cimarron in New Mexico, with my younger daughter, to visit many of the places that Henry mentions in his letters. We stayed in the actual house that Henry and his family lived in and where many of the letters were written. I also recorded an episode of the podcast in the house which is now the Grand National B & B. I will be posting photographs on the podcast Instagram page.
This is a mixed bag of a letter, bills to be paid, company comings and goings, paucity of letters from home and, of course, the weather.
9 min - Episode 40 - “All our best beer has leaked out of the cask”
This is, for Henry, quite a short letter tidying up some of his affairs.
6 min - Episode 39 - “A large proportion of the few residents of Cimarron will leave next week”
Written over the course of 3 days this letter describes some of the rifts in Cimarron society.
10 min - Episode 38 - “Mr Morley fastened a large rope around his chest and the other to the telegraph pole”
This letter was written on the same day as the previous episode, and the first half is written by Henry’s wife Charlotte and the remainder by Henry.
7 min - Episode 37 - “Charley Morris had his brains blown out on Saturday morning”
Henry tells his son that Cimarron is not at all what he expected it to be.
9 min - Episode 36 - “The lines are down, we can get no news from England”
Henry writes of more severe weather, as well as the possibility that there will be some more money coming soon.
8 min - Episode 35 - “Mr Gray saw a large snake in our front garden”
This letter from Jessica is written on most pages across the page one way then with the page turned through 90 degrees over the top of that writing yet it is surprisingly easy to read. Jessica has the best handwriting of the family.
7 min - Episode 34 - “I have bought an eagle”
Still concerned that letters are going missing, Henry lists them in this registered letter. And finally Mr Gardyne arrives, but will he do any good?
5 min - Episode 33 - “From dawn til noon, anvils were discharged”
Henry is concerned that some of his letters may be going missing, and the Americans celebrate the 4th of July.
9 min
About Cimarron 1872
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Matt Ruglys reads from letters sent by his great great grandfather, Henry Tinson, from Cimarron, New Mexico between 1871 and 1873. The letters describe life and work in the American west.