The account covers an 1851 trip from Oregon to Salt Lake City by way of Vancouver, the Columbia River, the Blue Mountains, Fort Boise, and Fort Hall. Jennings stayed at Fort Vancouver and wrote about the Rifle Regiment, the Hudson's Bay Company, and Indians. From Vancouver he went by river with R. Wilson, A. McKay, A. McArthur, K. Pritchette, and Lt. W. Wood, and later with Maj. J. Owen. The diary describes Mormons and notes figures in Oregon history. There is a sketch of Mt. Hood. and Typed transcript completely digitized.
Description:
Gift of William Robertson Coe. and Oliver Jennings, daguerreotypist.
Subject (Geographic):
California National Historic Trail, Fort Vancouver (Wash.), Washington (State)--Description and travel, and West (U.S.)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Hudson's Bay Company, Jennings, Oliver, McKay, Alexander, Ogden, Peter Skene, 1790-1854, Pritchette, Kintzing, Wilson, Robert, fl. 1851, Wood, William, fl. 1851, and Young, Brigham, 1801-1877
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life--Washington (State), Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific, and Mormons--Utah
