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A trip across the plains, 1859 [manuscript].

Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Smith, I. M., author.
Contributor:
Edward E. Ayer Collection (Newberry Library), owner.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Frontier and pioneer life--United States--History.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Overland Trails.
Genre:
Travel writing.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Production:
[Place of production not identified : producer not identified, 1859]
Summary:
Typescript recollections of an overland trip in 1859 from Fayette, Mo., to California via Independence Rock, Soda Springs, and the Humboldt-Carson route to Genoa, Nevada, with an emigrant party consisting of the Shepard and Wright families, and single men from Missouri and Michigan.
Notes:
Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America was originally published in 2013, as American Indian Histories and Cultures. The title was changed in 2024.
AM reference: Ayer MS 812.
Description based on publisher-supplied metadata (viewed January 24, 2024).

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