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- Creator:
- Kingery, Solomon
- Call Number:
- WA MSS 286
- Collection Title:
- Overland letters
- Container / Volume:
- Folder 2
- Image Count:
- 13
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Kingerly's letters to his parents and friends describe the 1852 journey from Illinois to California by way of Iowa, Kanesville, the Platte and Sweetwater, Kinney's and Hudspeth's Cut-offs, the Shasta and Nobles Pass route, Sierra Nevadas, and Shasta City. The letters note camping places, the cost of ferriage and food, encounters with Indians, sickness, and deaths. Kingerly traveled with a group from Pine Creek, Ogle County, Illinois. One letter describes storekeeping in Shasta City.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Shasta (Calif.) and West (U.S.)--Description and travel
- Subject (Topic):
- Overland journeys to the Pacific and Overland journeys to the Pacific--1852
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Overland Travels to California of Solomon Kingery in 1852. A Day-by-Day Journal [Transcript]
