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Overland Journeys to the Western United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 208 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

An overland journey from San Francisco to New York by way of the Salt Lake City

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2217
Scope and Contents Handwritten copy of an article published in the "Good Words and Sunday Magazine" on 1 June 1866 (vol. 7, pp. 380-393). After serving as a gunboat captain in British Columbia, Verney made the overland journey by stage coach from San Francisco, California to New York City in 1865. Verney was a well-educated traveler and his description of the overland route is extensive. Stage coach traveling was exhausting and Verney describes both the rough conditions and his fellow travelers. Trouble with...
Dates: 1866
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / An overland journey from San Francisco to New York by way of the Salt Lake City

Overland trail diary

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 1027
Scope and Contents Holograph diary, written in pencil by an unknown author. Item records the author's overland journey by ox team from Keokuk, Iowa to Oakland, California in 1860. The author's company included a handful of families and followed the Oregon Trail through Wyoming, then went through Utah and Nevada. Entries are brief and tell of starting times, distances traveled, and the condition of water and grass in the area. Some entries have been expanded in the back of the volume. A list of bills and...
Dates: 1860-1862
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Overland trail diary

Abraham Palmer papers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230243674]
Identifier: MSS SC 591
Scope and Contents

Typescripts (some duplicated), printed forms with typescript entries, and photographs (photocopies). The collection includes life sketches of Palmer and his first wife, Patience D. P. Palmer. Tells of persecutions in Missouri, immigration to Utah, and teaching school in Fayette, Utah. Includes two photographs and genealogical data.

Dates: undated
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Abraham Palmer papers

Jean Rio Griffiths Baker Pearce papers

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232593530]
Identifier: MSS 8768
Scope and Contents

Contains digital copies of papers related to Jean (Jane) Rio Griffiths Baker Pearce. Includes marriage and other legal documents for her progenitors and children, letters, receipt for her burial plot, and her original handwritten diaries from 1851 and 1878. The 1851 diary documents Jean (Jane) Rio's journey from England to America to join the Latter-day Saints in Utah, including her trials crossing the ocean by ship and the plains. Dated 1780-1878.

Dates: 1780-1878
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Jean Rio Griffiths Baker Pearce papers

Robert Peirce letter

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230350032]
Identifier: MSS 2590
Abstract

Letter written by Robert Peirce August 31, 1848 to his family in Pennsylvania about his journey to Salt Lake City and his LDS faith.

Dates: 1848 August 31; 1848 August 31
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Robert Peirce letter

John Perkins diary

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 982
Scope and Contents

Handwritten diary. Perkins came to Australia from England in 1853, worked as a liquor wholesaler, and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Also included are two biographies of Perkins by family members. Perkins came to California in 1856 and later settled in Parowan, Utah.

Dates: 1853-1854
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / John Perkins diary

Personal history of John Henry Roseman

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230311729]
Identifier: MSS SC 1454
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten personal history. Roseman describes his experiences traveling across the Great Plains and on to California by covered wagon in 1852.

Dates: 1886
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Personal history of John Henry Roseman

Phippen family family histories

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230241850]
Identifier: MSS SC 504
Scope and Contents

Collection includes information concerning a family who were converts to Mormonism and settlers of Utah. Also includes a letter concerning the creation of the collection.

Dates: 1975
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Phippen family family histories

John A. Powel journal

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 1199
Scope and Contents

Handwritten journal of Powel's overland journey from Illinois to Linn County, Oregon in 1851. Includes daybook of receipts and expenses and a record of marriages performed by Powel. Daily diary entries mostly deal with traveling conditions and the geography of the trail. Early entries mention passing through a Mormon settlement. Powel also briefly notes the death of his daughter, Therissa, from complications related to childbirth.

Dates: 1851-1878
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / John A. Powel journal

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