• Anonymous, Diary of a Cattle Driver, Fort Laramie to California, 1850-1851

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Language:
  • English
Call number:
  • C0938 (no. 10)
Extent:
  • 1 v. (21 leaves) ; 13 cm.
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Type:
  • Manuscripts
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.
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
Title sort:
  • Cattle drive : autograph letter, [1850-1851].
Spatial:
  • United States
Binding note:
  • Original paper wrappers.
Source acquisition:
  • Acc. no. AM 2003-75.
Created:
  • 1850-01-01T00:00:00Z/1851-12-31T23:59:59Z
Date:
  • [1850-1851].
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.
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/wh246s885
Location:
  • MSS C0938 (no. 10)
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Range label:
  • Main Structure
  • Feb. 10, 1851
  • July 1
  • July 18
  • July 21, 185?
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