Author: Charles GouldPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Diary of Charles Gould of the "Boston and Newton Joint Stock Association" in 1849
Author: Charles GouldDiary of Charles Gould
Author: Charles GouldPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Description: Diary of Charles Gould of the 'Boston and Newton Joint Stock Association', 1849. Left from Boston for California on April 16 1849. Describes overland trail, steamboats, flora, fauna and animals, settlements, indigenous peoples, teams of people bound for the mines, and more.
The Boston-Newton Company Venture
Author: Charles GouldPublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
"This volume brings together companion diaries kept by Charles Gould and David Jackson Staples, members of the Boston-Newton Joint Stock Association, during the company's overland journey from Boston to Sutter's Fort in the spring and summer of 1849. "Moreover, I have been able to supplement the diaries with letters and recollections of other members of the party, and from family records, all of which help to fill in and round out the picture"-- Pref., p. xi.
The Great Platte River Road
Author: Merrill J. MattesPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803281530
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
The Great Platte River Road through Nebraska and Wyoming was the grand corridor of America's westward expansion. A number of famous trails converged in the broad valley of the Platte, forming a kind of primitive superhighway for the great covered wagon migration from 1841 to 1866. From jumping-off places along the Missouri River?notably the Omaha-Council Bluffs, St. Joseph, and Kansas City areas?the emigrant throngs came together at Fort Kearny, Nebraska. Although they continued on to South Pass, Wyoming, and beyond, this book focuses on the feeder mutes and the more than three hundred miles between Fort Kearny and Fort Laramie. The Great Platte River Road looks at border towns, trail routes, river crossings, stage stations, military posts, and such landmarks as Chimney Rock and Scott's Bluff. It goes far beyond geography and Indian encounters in revealing cultural aspects of the great migration: food, dress, equipment, organization, camping, traffic patterns, sex ratios, morals, manners, religion, crime, accidents, disease, death, and burial customs.
American Diaries: Diaries written from 1845 to 1980
Author: Laura ArkseyPublisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences
Author: Daughters of the American Revolution. NebraskaPublisher:
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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The Overland Diary of James A. Pritchard from Kentucky to California in 1849
Author: James Avery PritchardPublisher:
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Category : Overland journeys to the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
History of the Sonora Mining Region of California, 1848-1860
Author: William Robert KennyPublisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
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Early Days in Nebraska
Author: Daughters of the American Revolution. NebraskaPublisher:
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Gold Rush: Bruff's camp to Washington city
Author: Joseph Goldsborough BruffPublisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
In April 1849, Bruff led a party of 66 from Washington, D.C., on the Overland Trail to California. In October 1849, they arrived near Sacramento. Bruff recorded the route and made many natural history drawings. In 1851, he returned to Washington on ship via Panama.