Details

Subject(s)

• Cattle trade—California [Browse]
• Cattle drives—West (U.S.). [Browse]
• Cattle trails—West (U.S.). [Browse]
• Frontier and pioneer life—California [Browse]
• Overland journeys to the Pacific [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples of North America—West (U.S.) [Browse]
• West (U.S.)—Description and travel [Browse]
• California—Description and travel [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Manuscripts—West (U.S.)—19th century [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

[1850-1851].

Summary note

Diary of an unidentified cattle drover on a cattle drive from Ft. Laramie to California, written in the form of a letter addressed to "My Dear Wife" San Francisco, July 10, 1851. Contains a detailed account of their travels dated from June 23 to July 26, 1850. The writer talks of the barren desert, sickness from cholera, and indians.

Notes

Written in a small blank book entitled "Miners' & Travellers' Pocket Letter Book, designed expressly for the convenience of miners, and travellers to the mines, by Joseph W. Gregory ...," New York: Thompson & Hitchcock. San Francisco: Marvin & Hitchcock and B.M. Hyde, 1850. Nesbitt, Printer, N.Y.

Binding note

Original paper wrappers.

Source acquisition

Acc. no. AM 2003-75.

Place name(s)

United States California San Francisco.

OCLC

60355468

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