George Gibbs notebooks of scientific observations of the Pacific Northwest,
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 1
Image Count:
146
Abstract:
Three holograph notebooks containing diary entries relating to travel; barometrical recordings; and observations on the languages and customs of the Indians and the flora and fauna of Washington Territory and the Pacific Northwest written while Gibbs was working on the U.S. Army railroad survey and the survey of the International Boundary Commission. The first two notebooks contain a few miscellaneous drawings. The volumes are entitled "Indian Tribes 1853-1854," "No. II Journal & Notes, N.W.B.S. 1855-1858," and "Washington Territory Miscellaneous, Chiefly Natural History [ca. 1857]."
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest, Pacific--Description and travel, Northwest, Pacific--Surveys, Washington (State)--Description and travel, and Washington (State)--Surveys
Subject (Name):
Gibbs, George,--1815-1873 and Northwest Boundary Commission, 1857-1869
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific--Languages, Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific--Social life and customs, Indians of North America--Washington (State)--Languages, Indians of North America--Washington (State)--Social life and customs, Natural history--Northwest, Pacific, Natural history--Washington (State), Pacific railroads--Explorations and surveys, Surveyors--Northwest, Pacific, and Surveyors--Washington (State)--lcsh
George Gibbs notebooks of scientific observations of the Pacific Northwest,
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 2
Image Count:
212
Abstract:
Three holograph notebooks containing diary entries relating to travel; barometrical recordings; and observations on the languages and customs of the Indians and the flora and fauna of Washington Territory and the Pacific Northwest written while Gibbs was working on the U.S. Army railroad survey and the survey of the International Boundary Commission. The first two notebooks contain a few miscellaneous drawings. The volumes are entitled "Indian Tribes 1853-1854," "No. II Journal & Notes, N.W.B.S. 1855-1858," and "Washington Territory Miscellaneous, Chiefly Natural History [ca. 1857]."
Alternative Title:
Journal & Notes, N[orth] W[est] B[oundary] S[urvey] and No. II. Journal & Notes, N.W.B.S. 1855-1858
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest, Pacific--Description and travel, Northwest, Pacific--Surveys, Washington (State)--Description and travel, and Washington (State)--Surveys
Subject (Name):
Gibbs, George,--1815-1873 and Northwest Boundary Commission, 1857-1869
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific--Languages, Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific--Social life and customs, Indians of North America--Washington (State)--Languages, Indians of North America--Washington (State)--Social life and customs, Natural history--Northwest, Pacific, Natural history--Washington (State), Pacific railroads--Explorations and surveys, Surveyors--Northwest, Pacific, and Surveyors--Washington (State)--lcsh
George Suckley's correspondence with family, Isaac Stevens, and colleagues, describes the Stevens expedition to survey a northern route for a Pacific railroad in 1853, his life on the west coast 1854-56, the northwest Indian wars of 1854-58, and an 1859 overland journey to Utah with troops in 1859. Some letters document a controversy with Stevens over publication of Suckley's natural history of Washington Territory.
Description:
Accompanied by several leaves from Isaac Stevens's Narrative and Final Report, 1860, which describes the railway survey from Fort Owen to Vancouver., Dr. George Suckley, born in New York, graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York and became an army doctor. In 1853 he joined the Isaac I. Stevens railway survey as surgeon and naturalist and served in the Indian wars and at Fort Steilacoom as an assistant surgeon until 1858. The following year he was back east but returned across the Plains with recruits for the Utah regiment., and Gift of William Robertson Coe.
Subject (Geographic):
Washington (State)--Description and travel and West (U.S.)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Stevens, Isaac Ingalls,m1818-1862, Suckley, George, 1830-1869, Suckley, John H, and Suckley, Mary
Subject (Topic):
Railroads--Washington (State)--Surveying and Yakama Indians--Wars, 1855-1859
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
Northern Pacific Railway Company logo appears at head of title. and Recto has 28 p. of text and ill., plus p. [1]-[4] containing text and ill.; verso has 1 map on p. [5]-[32] entitled "Western Washington."
Publisher:
s.n.,
Subject (Geographic):
Washington (State)--Description and travel, Washington (State)--Economic conditions, and Washington (State)--Maps
George Gibbs notebooks of scientific observations of the Pacific Northwest,
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 3
Image Count:
140
Abstract:
Three holograph notebooks containing diary entries relating to travel; barometrical recordings; and observations on the languages and customs of the Indians and the flora and fauna of Washington Territory and the Pacific Northwest written while Gibbs was working on the U.S. Army railroad survey and the survey of the International Boundary Commission. The first two notebooks contain a few miscellaneous drawings. The volumes are entitled "Indian Tribes 1853-1854," "No. II Journal & Notes, N.W.B.S. 1855-1858," and "Washington Territory Miscellaneous, Chiefly Natural History [ca. 1857]."
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest, Pacific--Description and travel, Northwest, Pacific--Surveys, Washington (State)--Description and travel, and Washington (State)--Surveys
Subject (Name):
Gibbs, George,--1815-1873 and Northwest Boundary Commission, 1857-1869
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific--Languages, Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific--Social life and customs, Indians of North America--Washington (State)--Languages, Indians of North America--Washington (State)--Social life and customs, Natural history--Northwest, Pacific, Natural history--Washington (State), Pacific railroads--Explorations and surveys, Surveyors--Northwest, Pacific, and Surveyors--Washington (State)--lcsh
The diary was probably written by a private or noncommissioned officer of Company A of the 1st Regiment of Oregon Mounted Volunteers. It describes the march from The Dalles to the support of Maj. Chinn on the Umatilla River and the Indian campaign in the Walla Walla Country. The diary gives details of the country and records the movements of the regiment during the Yakima War. The death of Peu-Peu-Mox-Mox is described.
Description:
Gift of William Robertson Coe. and Original binding.
Subject (Geographic):
Oregon--Description and travel, Umatilla River Valley (Or.)--Description and travel, Walla Walla County (Or.)--Description and travel, and Washington (State)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Mercer, K. B., Peu-Peu-Mox-Mox, and United States. Army. Oregon Mounted Volunteers, 1st
