Abby Mansur's letters to her family describe the daily life of a New Hampshire housewife in California. Accompanied by an ALS, dated 1855 Aug 13, of Marcus M. Harrub, business partner of Abby Mansur's husband, to Mrs. Littlefield, her sister, informin...
Subject (Name):
Harrab, Marcus M, Littlefield, Hannah E. Leighton, Mansur, Abby T. Leighton,--d. 1855, Mansur, Horace, and Mansur, James C
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life--California and Home economics--California
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 ...
Description:
Diary and typed transcript stored in a case.
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
Box 1 | Folder Moving to California in 1849 by E. L. Christman
Image Count:
15
Abstract:
Enos Christman's journals describe his 1849 sea voyage around the Horn from Philadelphia to San Francisco, his work in the gold fields and for the Sonora Herald. Pasted into the back of one journal are newspaper clippings of Christman's letters to Pen...
Subject (Geographic):
California--Description and travel and California--Gold discoveries
Subject (Name):
Apple, Ellen A, Atkins, DeWitt Clinton, Evans, Henry S, and Prizer, Enos
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life--California, Gold mines and mining--California, Journalism--California, Sonora Herald (1850), and Voyages to the Pacific coast
