About this Book

Letter from Frank A. Root to Byron L. Smith of Lake Forest, Illinois regarding The overland stage to California, a book written and published by Root and William Elsey Connelley in 1901. Root thanks Smith for ordering a copy of the book and mentions a flood in Topeka in which most of his possessions, as well as many copies of the book, were ruined. Root also describes his strained relationship with the the book's co-author.