Top 100 Westward Expansion Auction Items

Lot #6088 Westward Expansion Archive (12,000+

6088. Westward Expansion Archive (12,000+ Pages): The Papers of Judge Thomas Hartley Crawford — The Most Significant Unpublished Chronicle of Indian Removal and the Westward Expansion of the United States

Sold For: $343,750 (w/BP)

Estimate: $300,000+

Auction #742 - May 21, 2026

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Lot #6020 Montana Gold Rush: P. D. Morris Archive

6020. Montana Gold Rush: P. D. Morris Archive of (10) Autograph Letters Signed - A Civil War Deserter's Letters Home from the Montana Gold Fields: “There is gold in this country”

Sold For: $8,813 (w/BP)

Estimate: $4,000+

Auction #742 - May 21, 2026

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Lot #6017 Gold Rush: P. J. Norton Collection of

6017. Gold Rush: P. J. Norton Collection of (21) Handwritten Letters on Mining Life in California, 1851-1863

Sold For: $8,043 (w/BP)

Estimate: $2,000+

Auction #742 - May 21, 2026

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Lot #6014 William Wilson Autograph Letter Signed

6014. William Wilson Autograph Letter Signed on an Overland Journey with the American Fur Company and Trade with the Indians, with Wagon Train Sketch

Sold For: $4,675 (w/BP)

Estimate: $3,000+

Auction #742 - May 21, 2026

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Lot #6015 William Wilson Autograph Letter Signed:

6015. William Wilson Autograph Letter Signed: "My wheat crop, the only cash article of produce, in this part of the country, has been a compliet failure"

Sold For: $2,550 (w/BP)

Estimate: $3,000+

Auction #742 - May 21, 2026

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Lot #6019 Henry Wells and William Fargo Document

6019. Henry Wells and William Fargo Document Signed - American Express Company Stock Certificate

Sold For: $1,739 (w/BP)

Estimate: $1,000+

Auction #742 - May 21, 2026

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Lot #6012 Benjamin Howard Autograph Letter Signed:

6012. Benjamin Howard Autograph Letter Signed: "The Indians have been trying for some time to strike at our frontier but my Rangers have made many of them pay for their curiosity"

Sold For: $896 (w/BP)

Estimate: $600+

Auction #742 - May 21, 2026

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Lot #6016 Gold Rush: The Daily Alta California

6016. Gold Rush: The Daily Alta California Current Price Market Sheet - Listing Opium, Morphine, and Arsenic (San Francisco, 1850)

Sold For: $506 (w/BP)

Estimate: $300+

Auction #742 - May 21, 2026

Closed