Box 1
Container
Contains 52 Results:
Handwritten copy of an inscription about Robert Cavelier De La Salle, written in French and copied by Henry H. Denison from a tablet "in one of the many chapels in the Cathedral of Rouen.", 1910
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Western Travel Collection is an artificial, or subject-based, collection comprising a variety of documents that have been placed in this collection over the years due to their common subject matter. The collection consists primarily of accounts of travel in the nineteenth-century American West, but also includes material relating to western travel in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, and journals and diaries. Many items...
Dates:
1910
Correspondence between H.R. Wagner, Santiago, Chile, and Berkeley, California, and Stella M. Drumm, Missouri Historical Society, regarding unpublished personal narratives and journals related to western travel. (8 items), 1917
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Western Travel Collection is an artificial, or subject-based, collection comprising a variety of documents that have been placed in this collection over the years due to their common subject matter. The collection consists primarily of accounts of travel in the nineteenth-century American West, but also includes material relating to western travel in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, and journals and diaries. Many items...
Dates:
1917
Copy of typescript letter of Emanuel Ethelbert Downham, Alexandria, Virginia, to Whitelaw Saunders, Wamego, Kansas (11 pages). Contains his reminiscence about a trip from Philadelphia to Peoria, Illinois, by train, then overland to Denver, then returning to St. Louis. Includes descriptions of Pekin, Illinois; encounters with Indians en route to Denver; buffaloes; prospecting for gold at Golden and Russell's Gulch, Colorado; trip down the Platte River to Fort Kearney; and a boarding house in St. Louis. Also includes letter signed Le Roy Barnett, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, to Mrs. Fred Harrington, librarian, Missouri Historical Society, regarding the donation of the Downham letter. (2 items) (accession number 71-0030), 1921 Jan 24
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Western Travel Collection is an artificial, or subject-based, collection comprising a variety of documents that have been placed in this collection over the years due to their common subject matter. The collection consists primarily of accounts of travel in the nineteenth-century American West, but also includes material relating to western travel in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, and journals and diaries. Many items...
Dates:
1921 Jan 24
Printed announcement of lecture titled "The Man of Illinois," to be given by the Hon. J. Nick Perrin, Belleville, Illinois; brochure regarding dedicatory services for the discovery of Illinois at Perrin's Ledge that were held October 11, 1925; and printed announcement of dedication of monument at Perrin's Ledge, Kampsville, Calhoun County, Illinois, May 30, 1926. Each item includes an image of Marquette, Joliet, and five companions at Perrin's Ledge in 1673. (3 items), 1925-1926
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Western Travel Collection is an artificial, or subject-based, collection comprising a variety of documents that have been placed in this collection over the years due to their common subject matter. The collection consists primarily of accounts of travel in the nineteenth-century American West, but also includes material relating to western travel in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, and journals and diaries. Many items...
Dates:
1925-1926
Correspondence of the Missouri Historical Society with numerous individuals regarding donations or purchases of documents and artifacts relating to western travel and reference questions regarding the same. (16 items), 1925-1935
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Western Travel Collection is an artificial, or subject-based, collection comprising a variety of documents that have been placed in this collection over the years due to their common subject matter. The collection consists primarily of accounts of travel in the nineteenth-century American West, but also includes material relating to western travel in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, and journals and diaries. Many items...
Dates:
1925-1935
Typescript account titled "Memoranda of Visit to John M. Walker, Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County, California," by Francis P. Farquhar and Charles L. Camp. Includes history of the Walker family and notes taken from Walker family gravestones at the Alhambra Cemetery at Martinez, California. (2 pages) (gift of Francis P. Farquhar and Charles L. Camp), 1925 Feb 15
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Western Travel Collection is an artificial, or subject-based, collection comprising a variety of documents that have been placed in this collection over the years due to their common subject matter. The collection consists primarily of accounts of travel in the nineteenth-century American West, but also includes material relating to western travel in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, and journals and diaries. Many items...
Dates:
1925 Feb 15
St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper clipping titled "Across Continent by Water," about the first motorboat trip across the country. The crew comprised Val Woodbury, John E. Hoag, and Frank S. Wilton., 1925 Aug 16
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Western Travel Collection is an artificial, or subject-based, collection comprising a variety of documents that have been placed in this collection over the years due to their common subject matter. The collection consists primarily of accounts of travel in the nineteenth-century American West, but also includes material relating to western travel in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, and journals and diaries. Many items...
Dates:
1925 Aug 16
Typescript biographical sketch of noted frontiersman, Dick Parr, by his wife Louis L. Parr, published in the Annals of Wyoming, volume 9, number 1 (July 1932). (3 pages), 1932 May 27
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Western Travel Collection is an artificial, or subject-based, collection comprising a variety of documents that have been placed in this collection over the years due to their common subject matter. The collection consists primarily of accounts of travel in the nineteenth-century American West, but also includes material relating to western travel in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, and journals and diaries. Many items...
Dates:
1932 May 27
St. Louis Globe-Democrat newspaper clipping titled "Pioneer Tells of Early Life in Wild West," about William H. Jackson., 1938 Aug 3
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Western Travel Collection is an artificial, or subject-based, collection comprising a variety of documents that have been placed in this collection over the years due to their common subject matter. The collection consists primarily of accounts of travel in the nineteenth-century American West, but also includes material relating to western travel in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, and journals and diaries. Many items...
Dates:
1938 Aug 3
Typescript letter signed Goldie E. Cornett, Garden Grove, California, to the Missouri Historical Society requesting information about her grandparents Ambrose Taylor and Julie Nicholas Taylor, who left Arkansas in 1857 and traveled by covered wagon to California., 1938 Oct 20
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Western Travel Collection is an artificial, or subject-based, collection comprising a variety of documents that have been placed in this collection over the years due to their common subject matter. The collection consists primarily of accounts of travel in the nineteenth-century American West, but also includes material relating to western travel in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, and journals and diaries. Many items...
Dates:
1938 Oct 20