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91. (Colorado) Pippin, Lonnie, editor. Miss Stampede bids you welcome to the 22nd annual SanLuis Valley Ski-Hi Stampede, July31, August 1, 2, 1940, Monte Vista, Colorado. 16 leaves of halftonephotographs printed on both sides, interleaved with 16 smaller leaves of printed text on both sides.32.5x25 cm. (12¾x10”), spiral-bound black & sliver pictorial wrappers.[Monte Vista, CO]: [Monte Vista Journal], 1940Rare promotional piece for the oldest professional rodeo in the United States, begun in 1919,and the Colorado valley where it is held. OCLC/WorldCat lists the issue for 1942 (one copyonly, at Yale), which was only 8 pages in length and smaller in scale - the advent of World War IIevidently causing a scaling back. Fine or nearly so.(600/900)SOUVENIR MEDAL FOR 1ST FESTIVAL OF MOUNTAIN & PLAIN92. (Colorado) Souvenir medal for the First Annual Festival of Mountain and Plain of Colorado.Stamped medal hanging from a pinback, with picture of two miners shaking hands. Approx. 6x3.5cm. (2¼x1½”).Milwaukee, WI: Schwaab Stamp and Seal Company, [1895]Scarce little souvenir from the first of the annual celebrations of pioneer days in the Old Westheld in early October in Denver, running from 1895 to 1899, and in 1901, with a final attemptat revival in 1912. Some faint rubbing, else very good or better.(500/800)93. (Colorado) Weld, Lewis Ledyard. Autograph Letter Signed by Lewis Ledyard Weld, first Secretary ofthe Colorado Territory, to Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury. Pp. 1 & 6 only, on official stationeryof the Executive Department, Colorado Territory: Secretary’s Office. 25x20 cm. (9¾x8”).Denver: Sept. 25, 1861Lewis Ledyard Weld (1833-1865), a young Yale graduate, was appointed by Lincoln as the firstSecretary of the newly-established Territory of Colorado. In this letter to the Secretary of theTreasury, he is much concerned with government printing contracts, and sends “certain factswhich gravely affect the proper administration of Government here and upon which I conceiveit to be highly important that your personal opinion should be had, that by it all difficulty maybe quelled in the present and avoided in the future...the disposition of the Public Printing inthis Territory...in consequence of the well known difficulties which had heretofore arisen inthe Territories of Kansas and Nebraska...the matter has assumed the present complications...very detrimental to the public interests....I entreat your pardon for having thus forced uponyour notice a matter which may appear trivial, but I assure you sir it is a question vital tothe importance and effectiveness of the Federal rule in this Territory...” While this letter isincomplete, it is also an example of a rare autograph of the Civil War. Weld remained inColorado for two years, serving as Acting Governor, as well as a newspaper editor, and wascredited with doing much “to save the Territory to the Union”, despite the large number ofConfederate sympathizers in his community. He resigned in 1863 to join the Union Army,volunteering to become Captain of a just-created regiment of “Colored Troops”. Whilecommanding his African-American regiment in action in Virginia, Weld became sick and diedof pneumonia in January 1865, at the age of 32, Very good.(200/300)94. Columbus, Christopher. The Letter of Columbus to Luis de Santangel concerning his voyage tothe Indies. viii, 18 pp. Illustrations by Julian A. Links. (8vo) linen-backed boards. Number 46 of 200copies. First Edition Thus.[San Francisco]: [Windsor Press], [1926]Fine press edition of Columbus’ letter to Luis de Santangel, Escribiano de Racion of theKingdom of Aragon. The translation is from the 1893 Bernard Quaritch edition of the originalSpanish folio of 1493. Fine.(150/200)Page 29