Overland journeys to the Pacific
Found in 77 Collections and/or Records:
Isaac Julian Harvey history
One typewritten and photocopied volume of recollections of a journey to California by Isaac Julin Harvey, two photocopied and handwritten letters to his wife Sarah M. Harvey, and miscellaneous items.
Joseph Leland Heywood diaries
Minerva Wade Hickman autobiography
Handwritten autobiography. Hickman writes about her experiences in migrating to Utah in the 1840s and in settling in that state. She also includes "a list of names of Births since I came to North Ogden" in which she lists the name and sex of each child born in that community. Also included are genealogies of Hickman and Wade family members.
Oliver Boardman Huntington papers
Collection contains diaries, ephemera, and patriarchal blessings produced by Oliver Boardman Huntington and his son, Oliver B. Huntington. Items document the early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Latter-day Saint exodus to the West, and the establishment and early development of Utah. Materials date from between 1843 and 1932.
Transcriptions of most items also available.
Levi Jackman diary
Edward Jackson diary
William Henry Jackson papers
Jesse Bigler Martin diaries
John Peter Rasmus Johnson diary
Handwritten diary of Johnson's overland journey by wagon train from Nebraska to Salt Lake City in 1864. Johnson writes about encounters with Indians, deaths and births within the company, daily travelling conditions and camping locations, and the death of numerous oxen. The diary is moderately descriptive with daily entries.