One letter, possibly from writer-soldier Charles King of Milwaukee, to someone possibly employed at the Tribune, beginning, "Dear Mr. Stoddard, Yesterday I sent back a big batch of proofs and at 9 this morning came five slips which go at once. You will see that I have thus far cut out nine pages by slashing here & there...."

Mainly correspondence, notes, and writings of author, topographer, and Northern Pacific Railway executive Olin Dunbar Wheeler regarding Custer and the Battle of Little Big Horn; also articles about Wheeler and reviews of his work.