The diary describes the journey from Kansas to California along the California Trail, by way of Fort Kearny, the Platte and Sweetwater, Fort Bridger, Salt Lake City, the Mormon route by Pilot Springs to the Humboldt and Carson Rivers, Hope Valley, Drytown, and Sacramento. The diary describes the country, Indians, and conditions in California, especially politics.
Subject (Geographic):
California National Historic Trail, California--Politics and government--1850-1950, Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail, and West (U.S.)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Cramer, Samuel and Cramer, Thomas J. B
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life--California, Overland journeys to the Pacific, and Overland journeys to the Pacific--1859
1 photomechanical postcard in folder 1 digitized.
1 TLS with manuscript friendship contract on verso in folder 5 digitized.
Description:
6 folders.
Subject (Name):
Bellamy, Dodie and Killian, Kevin
Subject (Topic):
American literature--20th century, American poetry--20th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, Authors--United States--20th century, Gay authors, LGBTQ resource, Poets, American--20th century--Archives, and Poets--United States--20th Century
Typescript diary of Milton P. Skinner for 1928, bound with string. Brief daily entries from January to July describe Skinner's work on various manuscripts, local weather, auto trips, and outings with his wife Eva, including a trip to Washington in April for the annual meeting of the Society of Mammalogists and a trip from the Skinner home in Jamestown, New York to Crater Lake in Oregon. Entries omitted from August through November. December entries relate Skinner's life in Long Beach, California and note arrangement of lecture engagements at high schools and social clubs in Southern California. Typescript and manuscript financial accounts for house and automobile expenses, as well as expenses for clothes, books, amusements, and personal items are appended. Typescript calculation of personal assets dated 1928 Jan 1 also bound with diary.
Description:
Milton P. Skinner, naturalist and author. In 1920, appointed Yellowstone National Park's first park naturalist. and Purchased from Ron Lerner on the William Robertson Coe Fund, 2004.
Subject (Geographic):
California, Southern--Social life and customs, Crater Lake National Park (Or.), Jamestown (N.Y.), and Long Beach (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
American Society of Mammalogists, Skinner, Eva, and Skinner, Milton P. (Milton Philo), b. 1879
