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.
Description:
Cramer, of Douglas County, Kansas, was judge of the 1855 elections, inspector general of the militia, and territorial treasurer under the Lecompton Constitution. He was the pro-slavery candidate for treasurer in 1857. He left for California in 1859 with his wife and brother Samuel., Gift of William Robertson Coe., Original boards., and Wanting p. 1-2? Contemporary pagination runs from p. 3-182, of which p. 182 is the back pastedown. Several other errors in pagination noted.
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
Love's journal describes the 1849 trip from Pennsylvania to California, going by boat to St. Louis and Independence, then overland by the Platte, the Sweetwater, Sublette's Cut-off, Fort Hall, the California Trail, the Humboldt, the Truckee, Yuba and Bear rivers. Love describes prospecting in the Sacramento River Valley, troubles with Indians, and his life at Maj. P. B. Reading's ranch. He decided to sail home in 1852 by way of Panama.
Description:
Diary and typed transcript stored in a case., Gift of William Robertson Coe., and The diary is composed of four notebooks and various sizes of letter paper sewed together in a homemade calf binding.
Subject (Geographic):
California National Historic Trail, Sacramento Valley (Calif.), and West (U.S.)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Love, Alexander, 1810?- and Reading, P. B.
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life--California, Indians of North America--California, Mines and mineral resources--California--Sacramento Valley, Overland journeys to the Pacific, and Overland journeys to the Pacific--1849
The journal describes an overland trip from Mendon, Michigan to Virginia City, Montana and the return trip. Voorhees traveled along the Bozeman Trail and Bridger's Road. The journal has been reversed and three entries for July and August 1864 were added. There is a photoprint of Voorhees in the diary.
Subject (Geographic):
Bozeman Trail, Montana--Description and travel, and West (U.S.)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Barnabee, James S, Crumbaker, Thomas A, Jacobs, Thomas S, Marantette, F. Columbus, Uptegrove, Charles W, and Voorhees, Abram H.,--1824-
Subject (Topic):
Gold mines and mining--Montana and Indians of North America--West (U.S.)
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
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
Bibliography: p. [xxiii] -xxiv. and Includes index.
Publisher:
Princeton University Press,
Subject (Geographic):
California--Description and travel, California--History, Oregon--Description and travel, Oregon--History--To 1859, and West (U.S.)--Description and travel
Journal of life in Vermont : travels in the midwest and Illinois, and a trip across the Plains
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 6
Image Count:
120
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
S. Francis's diary from 1841-1845 describes country life in Vermont and for 1845-1852 records weather, crops, and politics in Illinois. The diary describes an 1852 trip from Illinois to Oregon by way of Des Moines, Kanesville, the Platte to Fort Laramie, the Salt Lake Road, Fort Boise, and Oregon City. Francis traveled with the Wilson and Sheppard families. The account continues for 1852-1862 with notes on farm life in Oregon and comments on the state of the nation prior to the Civil War.
Description:
Gift of William Robertson Coe., Notarized attestation of the author's daughter, Dora Francis Frazer, April 1936, is bound with the manuscript., and S. Francis, who was a farmer in Barnard, Vermont, moved his family to Illinois in 1846 and emigrated to Oregon in 1852.
Subject (Geographic):
Illinois--History--1778-1865, Oregon--History--1859-, Oregon--History--To 1859, and West (U.S.)--Description and travel
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture--Illinois, Agriculture--Oregon, Frontier and pioneer life--Illinois, Frontier and pioneer life--Oregon, and Overland journeys to the Pacific--1852