• Cattle drive : autograph letter, [1850-1851].

Date:

• [1850-1851].

Extent:

• 1 v. (21 leaves) ; 13 cm.

Language:

• English

Spatial:

• United States

Subject:

• Cattle trade—California
• Cattle drives—West (U.S.)
• Cattle trails—West (U.S.)
• Frontier and pioneer life—California
• Overland journeys to the Pacific
• Indians of North America—West (U.S.)
• West (U.S.)—Description and travel
• California—Description and travel
• Manuscripts—West (U.S.)—19th century

Binding note:

• Original paper wrappers.

Abstract:

• Diary of an unidentified cattle drover on a cattle drive from Ft. Laramie to California, written in the form of a letter addressed to "My Dear Wife" San Francisco, July 10, 1851. Contains a detailed account of their travels dated from June 23 to July 26, 1850. The writer talks of the barren desert, sickness from cholera, and indians.

Description:

• Written in a small blank book entitled "Miners' & Travellers' Pocket Letter Book, designed expressly for the convenience of miners, and travellers to the mines, by Joseph W. Gregory ...," New York: Thompson & Hitchcock. San Francisco: Marvin & Hitchcock and B.M. Hyde, 1850. Nesbitt, Printer, N.Y.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/wh246s885

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9938257103506421

Call number:

• C0938 (no. 10)

Location:

• MSS C0938 (no. 10)

Source acquisition:

• Acc. no. AM 2003-75.