Diary of the Overland Trail 1849 and letters 1849-1850 of Captain David Dewolf : typescript.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dewolf, David, 1822-1862, author.

Contributor:

Edward E. Ayer Collection (Newberry Library), owner.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frontier and pioneer life--United States--History.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Gold mines and mining.

Indians of North America.

Prospecting.

Overland Trails.

Genre:

Travel writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Production:

[Place of production not identified : producer not identified, 1849-1850]

Summary:

Typescript copy from 1924 by Edwin E. Cox, of Ukiah, Calif., of portions of the diary account by his grandfather, David Dewolf, of a journey across the Plains to the gold mines of California, and letters Dewolf wrote to his wife, Matilda Allen Greenwood Dewolf, between April 12 1849 and Nov. 5, 1850.

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.

Includes a brief biography and photograph of Dewolf, compiled by his grandson, Edwin E. Cox; and a photostatic copy of a portion of Dewolf s letter to Matilda of Jan. 20, 1850, leaves [2]-[3]. For additional information, cf. William R. Sandham s Captain David Dewolf: a California gold seeker in 1849, and an officer from Illinois in the Civil War , Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society XVII, no. 4 (Jan. 1925): 724-727. Published in: Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society for the year 1925: 183-222 .

AM reference: Ayer MS 237.

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