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1.
A camp meeting

Creator:
Gengembre
Stafford
Call Number:
Zc20 852ho
Collection Title:
Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"It will be seen that camp-meetings first originated in the West; nor did they commence with the Methodists, but, upon a Sacramental occasion, among the Presbyterians... They were continued until they became general among the Methodists throughout the Uni
Description:
P. 219.
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River Valley --History, and West (U.S.) --History
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life --West (U.S.) and Indians of North America
Collection Created:
Cincinnati, H. Howe, 1851
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A camp meeting

2.
Emigrants' camp

Creator:
Gengenber, S
L. S
Call Number:
Zc20 852ho
Collection Title:
Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"At sunset, their day's journey finished, they halt, perhaps, in the forest by the roadside, to prepare for supper and to pass the night. The horses are unharnessed, watered and secured, with their heads to the trough, or else hoppled out to grass."
Description:
P. 35 [279].
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River Valley --History, and West (U.S.) --History
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life --West (U.S.) and Indians of North America
Collection Created:
Cincinnati, H. Howe, 1851
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Emigrants' camp

3.
Heroism of a pioneer woman

Creator:
Grosvenor & Telfer
Call Number:
Zc20 852ho
Collection Title:
Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
""In the meantime his heroic wife was busily engaged in defending the door against the efforts of the only remaining Indian, whom she so severely wounded, with the ax, that he was soon glad to retire.""
Description:
P. 155.
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River Valley --History, and West (U.S.) --History
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life --West (U.S.) and Indians of North America
Collection Created:
Cincinnati, H. Howe, 1851
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Heroism of a pioneer woman

4.
The great West

Creator:
O'Brien, R
Wade, William, fl. 1844-1852
Call Number:
Zc20 852ho
Collection Title:
Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
""The vast, illimitable, changing West.""
Description:
Preceding title page.
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River Valley --History, and West (U.S.) --History
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life --West (U.S.) and Indians of North America
Collection Created:
Cincinnati, H. Howe, 1851
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The great West

5.
A town of prairie dogs

Call Number:
Zc20 852ho
Collection Title:
Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"Their towns equal in extent and population [to] the largest cities of Europe; some extending many miles in length, with considerable regularity in their streets, and their houses of a uniform style of architecture."
Description:
P. 51, associated with p. 65.
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River Valley --History, and West (U.S.) --History
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life --West (U.S.) and Indians of North America
Collection Created:
Cincinnati, H. Howe, 1851
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A town of prairie dogs

6.
California emigrants

Call Number:
Zc20 852ho
Collection Title:
Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"A caravan of emigrants crossing the Great American Desert, on their route to California and Oregon."
Description:
P. 233.
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River Valley --History, and West (U.S.) --History
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life --West (U.S.) and Indians of North America
Collection Created:
Cincinnati, H. Howe, 1851
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > California emigrants

7.
Massacre of the Christian Indians

Call Number:
Zc20 852ho
Collection Title:
Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
""Of the number thus cruelly murdered by the backwoodsmen of the upper Ohio, between fifty and sixty were women and children- some of them innocent babes.""
Description:
P. 107.
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River Valley --History, and West (U.S.) --History
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life --West (U.S.) and Indians of North America
Collection Created:
Cincinnati, H. Howe, 1851
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Massacre of the Christian Indians

8.
Okonogan, Oregon

Call Number:
Zc20 852ho
Collection Title:
Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"Okonogan and Spokan, on Spokan River, were the first fur-trading establishments of the Company of John Jacob Astor in Oregon."
Description:
P. 389.
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River Valley --History, and West (U.S.) --History
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life --West (U.S.) and Indians of North America
Collection Created:
Cincinnati, H. Howe, 1851
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Okonogan, Oregon

9.
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Call Number:
Zc20 852ho
Collection Title:
Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"It is on the site of an ancient Indian pueblo, some 15 miles east of the Rio del Norte, at the base of a snow-clad mountain, and contains a little over 3000 souls."
Description:
P. 367.
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River Valley --History, and West (U.S.) --History
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life --West (U.S.) and Indians of North America
Collection Created:
Cincinnati, H. Howe, 1851
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Santa Fe, New Mexico

10.
The gold diggin's

Call Number:
Zc20 852ho
Collection Title:
Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
"The thirst for gold and the labor of acquisition, overruled all else, and totally absorbed every faculty. Complete silence reigned among the miners; they addressed not a word to each other, and seemed averse to all conversation."
Description:
Associated with p. 406.
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River Valley --History, and West (U.S.) --History
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life --West (U.S.) and Indians of North America
Collection Created:
Cincinnati, H. Howe, 1851
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The gold diggin's