Oregon National Historic Trail -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Crossing the plains with ox teams in 1862
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230320464]
Identifier: MSS SC 2203
Scope and Contents
Typescript with handwritten corrections and photocopies of the item. Boquist writes of her journey from Mt. Sterling, Van Buren Co., Iowa to California in 1862. She travelled on the Oregon and California trails staying three days in Salt Lake City, Utah, "a beautiful little city." The local inhabitants came to buy what they had to sell at higher cost than the items were worth, and they were warned by a Mormon widow against the tyrannical rule of Brigham Young saying many "were kept there...
Dates:
approximately 1900
Brigham Young letter to William L. Marcy
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230342682]
Identifier: MSS 815
Scope and Contents
Contains photocopies of two handwritten and signed letters dated December 17, 1845 and addressed to William L. Marcy, Secretary of War for the United States. The two items are identical in content, but one appears to be a rough draft of the other. Young petitions the federal government for funds to aid in the westward migration of Mormons from Nauvoo, Illinois, with Vancouver Island as a possible destination. Young requests money to build block houses and stockades on the Oregon Trail and...
Dates:
1845 December 17