Box 1
Container
Contains 52 Results:
Typescript copy of letter of Daniel Toole, Fort Hall, to his brother, dated August 2, 1846, and published in the Liberty Missouri Weekly Tribune, December 19, 1846. Describes his trip to Oregon, both the curious sights and hardships. Comments on the soda springs; Independence Rock; lakes of salaratus; rocky, mountainous, and sandy roads; scarcity of grass; and dust. Also advises others to select well-made cattle for the trip. (2 pages), 1846 Dec 19
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
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:
1846 Dec 19
Typescript copy of St. Louis Weekly Reveille article titled "Major Fitzpatrick, the Discoverer of the South Pass!" by Solitaire, which claims that Major [Thomas] Fitzpatrick, not General Ashley, led the first group of white men through the pass in 1824. (5 pages), 1847 Mar 1
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
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:
1847 Mar 1
Three letters signed G. Mark, dated St. Joseph, Blue River, and Sacramento City, to his wife, Philaura, Mt. Carroll, Carroll County, Illinois, which describe his overland journey to California during the Gold Rush. Letter dated September 16, 1849, describes drowning of two team members (John P. and William Y.) on the north fork of the Platte River. (3 items) (accession number 75-0002), 1849 May-Sept
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
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:
1849 May-Sept
Photocopy of letter signed H. Swearingen, Fort Laramie, to his son D. Swearingen, Maryville, Nodaway County, Missouri, describing his journey across the Platte River and into the Black Hills. Also includes comments on the size and load of the wagons. (3 pages) (accession number 71-0043) , 1849 June 14
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
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:
1849 June 14
Letter signed Charles E. Lockwood, Sacramento City, to P.H. Buren and H.A. Honey, describing his trip across the plains to California, and the gold diggings and placers. (4 pages) (accession number 63-0042), 1849 Dec 7
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
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:
1849 Dec 7
Pencil and typescript copies of William Lampton's diary of a trip from Columbia, Missouri, to California. Also includes photocopy of map, with dates and places marked. (pencil copy, 30 pages; typescript copy, 31 pages) (3 items), 1850
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
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:
1850
Transcribed copy of letter of Dabney T. Carr, Platte River, near Chimney Rock, to his cousin G.C. Broadhead en route from Missouri to California. Also includes list of Indian words and their definitions, compiled by Carr, and letter signed G.C. Broadhead, Columbia, to Miss Head [Missouri Historical Society], October 13, 1908. (3 items), 1850 May 31
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 7
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:
1850 May 31
Diary of G.A. Smith describing his journey, day by day, from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Weaver, California (93 pages). Comments on weather, landscape, health of persons and animals, water and hunting conditions, and the distance traveled each day. Also includes typescript copy of diary. (18 pages) and postcard of monument to David Thompson. (3 items), 1852 Apr 15-July 16
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
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:
1852 Apr 15-July 16
Unsigned manuscript titled "A Western Journey—Chap. I," describing journey, under direction of the Emigrant Aid Society, from New York to Kansas City. Traveled by rail to St. Louis and then by steamboat. Mentions meeting Major Hoyt in St. Louis. (Note on back states that manuscript was written by John W. Dodge of Hampton Falls, New Hampshire.) (3 pages), 1856 Apr
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
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:
1856 Apr
Typescript copy of letter of C. Randall, E.W. Raymond, Robert Williams, and John W. Smith, Bordeau’s, 8 miles below Fort Laramie, to Capt. Todd, October 29, 1858, which contains their account of "the only practical route" from Fort Laramie to Fort Randall, with chart of dates and distances traveled (published in the Missouri Republican, January 31, 1859). Also includes typescript copy of letter of G.K. Warren, lieutenant, Topographical Engineers, Washington, D.C., to the editor of the Missouri Republican, April 12, 1859, defending the route he took to Laramie and pointing out the problems with the estimates made by Randall, Raymond, Williams, and Smith (published in the Missouri Republican, April 19, 1859). (5 pages), 1858-1859
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
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:
1858-1859