Overland journey : from Leesburg, Pennsylvania, to the California mines / by Alexander Love, 1849-1852.

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Title: Overland journey : from Leesburg, Pennsylvania, to the California mines / by Alexander Love, 1849-1852.
Creator: Love, Alexander, 1810?-
Contributor: Love, Alexander, 1810?-
Reading, P. B.
Published / Created: 1849-1852
Abstract: Love's journal describes the 1849 trip from Pennsylvania to California, going by boat to St. Louis and Independence, then overland by the Platte, the Sweetwater, Sublette's Cut-off, Fort Hall, the California Trail, the Humboldt, the Truckee, Yuba and Bear rivers. Love describes prospecting in the Sacramento River Valley, troubles with Indians, and his life at Maj. P. B. Reading's ranch. He decided to sail home in 1852 by way of Panama.
Description: Diary and typed transcript stored in a case.
Gift of William Robertson Coe.
The diary is composed of four notebooks and various sizes of letter paper sewed together in a homemade calf binding.
Extent: 255 p.: maps.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: text
Genre: Diaries--United States
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Geographic): California National Historic Trail
Sacramento Valley (Calif.)
West (U.S.)--Description and travel
Subject (Name): Love, Alexander, 1810?-
Reading, P. B.
Subject (Topic): Frontier and pioneer life--California
Indians of North America--California
Mines and mineral resources--California--Sacramento Valley
Overland journeys to the Pacific
Overland journeys to the Pacific--1849

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Citation: Alexander Love. Overland Journey from Leesburg. Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Withington, M. C. Catalogue of Western Americana Manuscripts 309.