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Journal of a Trip Across the Continent. Volume IV 1902.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shurtleff, Sarah Anne (Keegan), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatology.
- Shopping.
- Photographs.
- Inland navigation.
- Mountains.
- Alaska.
- Washington (State).
- Spokane (Wash.).
- Cascade Range.
- Columbia River.
- Boston (Mass.).
- Rocky Mountains.
- Victoria.
- Oregon.
- California.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- 1902
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A journal recording Sarah Shurtleff's travels and her reactions to and thoughts about the people she met and the places she visited. The volume is illustrated with pictures she collected and with photographs, many of which were taken by her husband, Asahel Shurtleff. The volume includes an index. This series of journals are copies of the pencilled diaries that she wrote at the time of her trip (see ref. A170 box 12 198v-200v). Shurtleff writes about Native American mythology, customs, months, villages, parades, graves, children and baskets. She also mentions seeing the Selkirk glacier, sulphur baths, totem poles, and various churches.
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference:A170 box 13 204v.
- Detached boards, damaged spine at top, pressed flowers.
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