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Oregon Trail -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Overland diary to the Pacific

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230308204]
Identifier: MSS SC 1028
Scope and Contents

Incomplete, handwritten account of an overland passage to California by an unknown author. The diary begins 219 miles east of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and documents the wagon journey to Fort Laramie, Wyoming, along the Oregon Trail. Described are landscape, wildlife, wagon train procedures, and Mormon settlements.

Dates: 1849
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Overland diary to the Pacific

Saul F. Stephens letter

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230309327]
Identifier: MSS SC 1188
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letter to his wife describing a segment of the overland journey along the Platte River east of Fort Laramie, Wyoming.

Dates: 1849
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Saul F. Stephens letter

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