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
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