Details

Subject(s)

• Violette, M. A. [Browse]
• Overland journeys to the Pacific [Browse]
• Miners—West (U.S.)—19th century—Diaries [Browse]
• California—Description and travel—19th century [Browse]
• Missouri—Description and travel—19th century [Browse]
• West (U.S.)—Description and travel—19th century [Browse]

Former owner

• Rollins, Philip Ashton, 1869-1950 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Diaries [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Diaries—19th century [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

1848-1849.

Summary note

A forty-miner's ms. journal of a trip overland from Huntsville, Missouri to Sleepy Hollow, California, dated April 12 to Sept. 5, 1849, with a daily record of route and distances. Includes a photograph of "Dad" Violette, Florida, Mo. pasted down on p. [2] of cover.

Notes

• "M.A. Violette Day Book for 1848"--p. [2] of cover.
• Spine title.

Binding note

Red half morocco slipcase.

Provenance

Bookplate of Philip Ashton Rollins.

OCLC

49366614

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