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Contains 52 Results:
Typescript copy of two letters of J.S. Baker, Omaha City, to his uncle George Baker, West Plattsburgh, New York, regarding his impending trip across the plains., 1859 Apr 20-24
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:
1859 Apr 20-24
Typescript copy of letter of T.L. Dickerson, Virginia City, Montana, to Helen M. Flood, Shelburn, Indiana, describing cold and snowy return from prospecting tour at Silver Bow., 1865 Mar 4
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:
1865 Mar 4
Typescript excerpts from the diary of William K. Thomas, July 29-August 12, [1866], describing weather, scenery, animals, Little and Big Horn Rivers, Clark’s Fort, and Thomas Spring. Original is at the Montana Historical Society, Helena. (4 pages) , [1866]
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:
[1866]
Letter signed Ed (Edward W. Tittmann), Oakland, California, to his wife, Minna, describing his railroad trip west from Laramie to Berkeley. Includes descriptions of scenery and distances from St. Louis (to Green River, Evanston, Odgen, Elko, Humboldt, Colfax, and Sacramento), with elevations. Also includes undated letter from Tittmann’s granddaughter Mrs. Charles Harrison Greene to the Missouri Historical Society. (2 items) (gift of Mrs. Charles H. Green, Prescott, Arizona, April 4, 1957), 1876 Oct 1
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:
1876 Oct 1
Two typescript copies of articles from the St. Louis Republic titled "'Babe' Conners Has Passed Away" and "Babe Conners Buried" about the life and funeral of Sarah B. Conners, a well-known mulatto proprietress of a St. Louis dance hall. (6 pages), 1899 Aug 5-7
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:
1899 Aug 5-7
Typescript copy of paper titled "The Progress of Discovery of the Mississippi River—1498-1700," read at a meeting of the historical societies of the states comprising the Louisiana Purchase, at the exposition in St. Louis. Paper was written by Warren Upham, secretary of the Minnesota Historical Society, and highlights the contributions made by Vespucci, Pineda, Narvaez, DeSoto, Groseilliers and Radisson, Joliet and Marquette, Hennepin and Du Luth, La Salle, and Le Sueur. (34 pages), 1904 Sept 16
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10
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:
1904 Sept 16
Typescript copy of journal of Captain Harry Gordon (8 pages), while ascending the Mississippi River from its junction with the Ohio River to St. Louis. Contains description of Kaskaskia, Fort Chartres, Cahokia, and St. Louis. Reproduced in Charles A. Hanna, The Wilderness Trail (1911), Volume II, pages 45-49., 1766
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
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:
1766
Letter of Baron de Carondelet to "His Excellency, the Prince of Peace" about the Trading and Exploring Company of the Missouri River, established in 1794. Proposes a plan involving Mackay to "prevent the English from the beginning from forming pretensions in regard to those domains of His Majesty.", 1796 June 3
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
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:
1796 June 3
Mackay's journal of a voyage up the Missouri River, October 1795 to January 1796. Describes his time with the Othochita (Otoes) and Mahas., 1795 Oct-1796 Jan
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
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:
1795 Oct-1796 Jan
Note of Baron de Carondelet to Don Zenon Trudeau, New Orleans., 1796 May 12
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1
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:
1796 May 12