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Middle West -- Description and travel

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

E. V. Carter papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 405
Scope and Contents Handwritten record (plus photocopies) of Carter's journey frm Ohio to St. Louis via Wisconsin. ALS's dated Oct. 15, 24, 1845 (plus photocopies) to his wife, Mary Hine Carter, are revised transcripts of diary. Diary entry for November 13 describes a visit to the Nauvoo, Illinois Temple.This is a journal kept by E.V. Carter during his journey from Tallmadge, Ohio, to St. Louis, Missouri. He wrote of a lecturer, "Mr. Little John," at a Methodist house in White Pigeon Prarie,...
Dates: 1845

William A. Gallup diary

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233284758]
Identifier: Vault MSS 68
Scope and Contents

Handwritten diary including a list of expenses kept while Gallup was travelling in the American Middle West. Many pages are blank. He visited the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, on 19 July 1848 and describes what he saw there.

Dates: 1847-1848