[Transcript] Overland journey : from Lake Maria, Marquette County, Wisconsin, to California, and life in the mines

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Title: [Transcript] Overland journey : from Lake Maria, Marquette County, Wisconsin, to California, and life in the mines
Creator: Orvis, Andrew M., 1819-1895
Contributor: Orvis, Caroline
Published / Created: 1849-1858
Abstract: The journal records an 1849 journey from Wisconsin to California, crossing Illinois and Iowa and continuing by way of Council Bluffs, the Platte and Sweetwater, South Pass, Fort Bridger, and Salt Lake City. There is a gap but the account continues on the Mormon Trail to the Humboldt and the Truckee. The journal covers Orvis's experiences in the mines and in Sacramento. The journal is followed by accounts and records of employment showing that Orvis was back on his farm in Wisconsin by 1858.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: text
Genre: Diaries--United States
Transcriptions
Typescripts
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Geographic): California--Description and travel
Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail
Sacramento (Calif.)
West (U.S.)--Description and travel
Subject (Name): Orvis, Caroline
Subject (Topic): Agriculture--Wisconsin
Mines and mineral resources--California
Overland journeys to the Pacific
Overland journeys to the Pacific--1849

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Citation: Andrew M. Orvis, Overland Journey from Lake Maria. Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Withington, M. C. Catalogue of Western Americana Manuscripts 367.