PikesPeakCharlie
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Buffalo Bill & Kit Carson + 3 Historys of America Show up in a dumpster
I'm still in shock
My brother & I driving down the street , see a large roll away dumpster sitting in front of an old building ,,,, turned around to take a look ,,,,,, Wow !!!!!!!!!!! this thing was full of antique papers,books,just all kinds of stuff. 
I will try to make a long story short. With permission from the job supervisor we each carried away 2 box's of stuff. Digging through it yesterday, I found I had 3 old books on the history of America/United States. #1 Copyright 1883 ,"America its history & biography. #2 copyright 1895 ,"History of the United States". #3 Copyright 1910(3rd printing,the first was 1899) "A History of the United States". What great books with just tons of illustrations.
The main focus of this story is the 1883 book, what a treasure trove of our history & many treasure/detecting leads, Anyway flipping through the pages I came across a piece of paper stuck in between the pages,,,,reading it my jaw dropped ,,, was I looking at Buffalo Bills signature from Deadwood Dakota 1865, Flipped a few more pages and was looking at Kit Carson's signature In my mind *&^&*%$# What did I just find !!!!! Now ,I guess its time to do some research,was Buffalo Bill in Deadwood in 1865 
?? are they real OH BOY A NEW TREASURE HUNT 
We just never know what will pop up next !! If you do not look ,,, You will never find. HH to all
I'm still in shock
My brother & I driving down the street , see a large roll away dumpster sitting in front of an old building ,,,, turned around to take a look ,,,,,, Wow !!!!!!!!!!! this thing was full of antique papers,books,just all kinds of stuff. I will try to make a long story short. With permission from the job supervisor we each carried away 2 box's of stuff. Digging through it yesterday, I found I had 3 old books on the history of America/United States. #1 Copyright 1883 ,"America its history & biography. #2 copyright 1895 ,"History of the United States". #3 Copyright 1910(3rd printing,the first was 1899) "A History of the United States". What great books with just tons of illustrations. The main focus of this story is the 1883 book, what a treasure trove of our history & many treasure/detecting leads, Anyway flipping through the pages I came across a piece of paper stuck in between the pages,,,,reading it my jaw dropped ,,, was I looking at Buffalo Bills signature from Deadwood Dakota 1865, Flipped a few more pages and was looking at Kit Carson's signature
In my mind *&^&*%$# What did I just find !!!!! Now ,I guess its time to do some research,was Buffalo Bill in Deadwood in 1865 ?? are they real OH BOY A NEW TREASURE HUNT We just never know what will pop up next !! If you do not look ,,, You will never find. HH to allAttachments
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Talked to my brother last night & he has an old autograph book in one of his box's,all the autographs were to Miss Waltmann,no other famous names that we recognized. I,m not sure about this. I agree the BB signature looks nothing like the ones I found on the Internet. I agree the hand writing is very similar ,yet different also,on both pages. A friend who is 90,said sometimes people(maybe Miss Waltmann)would practice handwriting/caligraphy in their autograph books,this could be the case,or it could be some of the ideas in the above post's. But right now it might look like they are forgeries ![:-\](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")
If they are what a bummer !! Wonder how much I,m going to have to give up to trade my brother out of the autograph book 
Have not done any reaserach on the Kit Carson signature yet. Thanks for all the replies !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think the final say will be when I can take them to an expert.Can't wait to see the whole autograph book to compare the hand writing. HH , I will update when I get my hands on the book.
Miss Minne Waltmann sure might have been a "pretender" . I've include pic's of all the autographs that are in the book,some were her teachers,some friends,some ?? it seems she lived in Maysville Pa. Does anyone recognize any of the names. Well I didnt end up with some historic or authentic signatures,but we did find a little treasure trove of old books and papers,from the 1880s up to around 1905 
