This collection consists primarily of the incoming and outgoing correspondence of Sadie Kiel George and her husband, Hampton George from the period 1895-1940. The subject matter of these letters for the most part is proposed land and mineral rights sales. Correspondents include: Levi Syphus, Judge Thomas Toland, F.R. McNamee, Ed Clark, and Ed Younts, all prominent Las Vegas pioneers. The collection includes some personal correspondence such as sympathy letters from friends (most notably one from Helen J. Stewart) to Sadie upon the death of her husband Hampton George. There are also personal letters between family members. Two of the most significant letters in the collection deal with the deaths of brothers William and Edward Kiel, Sadie’s uncles, who were found shot to death at the Kiel Ranch in October 1900. Thought to be a murder suicide at the time, work by UNLV forensic anthropologists Sheilagh and Richard Brooks in the 1970s proved the crime to actually be a double murder.