Transcript of Journal

Description

Title: Transcript of Journal
Published / Created: 1845 Sept 9-1862 Mar 23
Abstract: S. Francis's diary from 1841-1845 describes country life in Vermont and for 1845-1852 records weather, crops, and politics in Illinois. The diary describes an 1852 trip from Illinois to Oregon by way of Des Moines, Kanesville, the Platte to Fort Laramie, the Salt Lake Road, Fort Boise, and Oregon City. Francis traveled with the Wilson and Sheppard families. The account continues for 1852-1862 with notes on farm life in Oregon and comments on the state of the nation prior to the Civil War.
Description: Gift of William Robertson Coe.
Notarized attestation of the author's daughter, Dora Francis Frazer, April 1936, is bound with the manuscript.
S. Francis, who was a farmer in Barnard, Vermont, moved his family to Illinois in 1846 and emigrated to Oregon in 1852.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: WA MSS 203
Collection Title: Journal of life in Vermont : travels in the midwest and Illinois, and a trip across the Plains and life in Oregon
Collection / Other Creator: Francis, Samuel Dexter, 1814-1891
Collection Date: 1841-1862
Container / Volume: Box 1 | Folder 6

Format: text
Genre: Diaries--United States
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Geographic): Illinois--History--1778-1865
Oregon--History--1859-
Oregon--History--To 1859
West (U.S.)--Description and travel
Subject (Topic): Agriculture--Illinois
Agriculture--Oregon
Frontier and pioneer life--Illinois
Frontier and pioneer life--Oregon
Overland journeys to the Pacific--1852

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Citation: Samuel Dexter Francis, Journal of Life in Vermont. Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Withington, M. C. Catalogue of Western Americana Manuscripts 203.