Expeditions and Adventure
Subject
Subject Source: Cclanarrow
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Description of experiences had in crossing the plains and mountains in the spring of 1863, settling in the eastern and unorganized portion of Idaho territory, and experiences had in that country in 1863-4
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233291027]
Identifier: Vault MSS 492
Scope and Contents
Walker's party left West Point, Iowa, on 8 April 1863, destined for California. They traveled by steamboat and rail to Atchison, Kansas, and from there "in one of Ben Hollidays stage coaches" to Fremont's Orchard. They encountered about sixty Indians. They arrived safely in Denver. Walker went with a wagon train for some "diggings discovered about five hundred miles north of Salt Lake City." They passed a group of Mormons heading back east who told Walker: "We are Mormons: but we are...
Dates:
1863-1864, 1904
Heber and Genevieve Moulton collection of Laotian refugee stories and photographs
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6194
Abstract
A collection of escape stories and photos from Laotian refugees living in Fresno, California.
Dates:
1988-1991
Price W. Nelson journal and autobiography
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 3121
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typescript. The item is an autobiography of Price W. Nelson. The account is largely retrospective even though much of it is written like diary entries. Also included is a diary to Nelson dated 5 Aug. 1935. Nelson writes about his birth in California in 1855, his journey to Utah in 1857. He also settled in Franklin, Idaho, in 1859 and moved to Logan, Utah, in 1864. He later moved to Glendale, Utah. He lived in numerous other places in Arizona and...
Dates:
approximately 1913-1946