Letters from Dockery is a Podcast of Letters Written by Raymond E. Dockery to Bohnda Porter Akins, Read by their Grandson 100 years later. The letters describe life in Lewistown, Montana, from the point of view of a small town lawyer. Dockery enlisted in the Army in mid-1917 and fought in World War I in France until the end of the war, and a year beyond.
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The first and perhaps only letter from Bohnda to Ray in the collection
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-Master-Episode-029 - 11.25.17 - 22Stand Apart and Holler22 - 1718 9.00 PM
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-Master-Episode-028 - 11.24.17 - 22Quarantined22 - 1718 8.58 PM
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-Master-Episode-027 - 10.23.17 - 22Am Pretty Tired . . .22 - 101317 8.17 PM
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-Master-Episode-026 - 10.19.17 - 22They Both Took Up the Same Beat22 - 101317 8.10 PM
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025 10 17 17 "Let These Maniacs Shoot Me Sick Again"
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022 10 09 17 "If I Land it, You Can Salute Me"
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-Master-Episode-021 - 10.01.17 - 22An Unfathomable Love Light22 - 92417 10.02 PM
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-Master-Episode-020 - 9.29.17 - 22Also We Were Vaccinated22 - 92417 9.46 PM
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019 - 9 28 17 "A Wife a Thousand Miles Away!"
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000 2 "J H Akins, Louise Cresap and the Golden Rule Stores"
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At the turn of the century, J.H. Akins and Louise Cresap Akins arrive in Lewistown, Montana by way of Humansville, Missouri. They have their two year old daughter, Bohnda in tow. They would soon prosper in the rich civic life of Lewistown.
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000.1 - Background Episode - Lewistown History
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011 - 2/17/17: "You Want a Love Letter, You Say. . ."
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010 - 2/14/17: "I have no Real Fears for my Future, and am Bold Enough to Ask You to Place Yours in Pawn with Mine . . . "
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009 - 2/13/17: "As Though I've Been Cheated Out of the Only Real Pleasure I Know. . . "
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008 - 2/10/17: "You Seem to Have a Fertile Field . . . "
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007 -2/8/17: "I Wonder if I Will Get A Letter Today"
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Dockery steals a friend's car and gets it stuck in a snowbank. He wonders if Bohnda will respond to his outburst in his previous letter.
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006-2/6/17: "I Found Myself Cursing, Softly but Eloquently"
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Dockery did not know he was the jealous type. But when he receives Bohnda's letter about two other men plying her for sympathy, he erupts in concern.
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Dockery is at work on a Sunday morning, as he may have a client. . .
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Something has happened between Bohnda and her mother, and Dockery offers his support and advice. Dockery has his first client, and makes plans to go to Fort Benton. It's not time, we learn, "to spill the beans."
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004-1/17/17: "I Have Heard Some Things About Miles City"
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Dockery hears that Miles City is "a wide open town," and worries his sweetheart is staying there.
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003-1/15/17: "A Friend is not Much Good Unless. . ."
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Dockery considers a friend's request to be "used" to help him with a homestead claim.
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002-1/14/1917: "Until the Testing Fires . . ."
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Dockery responds to a letter, which he liked so much but also hurt so much.
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001-1/9/1917: "The Vital Principle of My Scheme of Life"
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