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Our motor trip from Bangor, Maine to San Diego, California : a composite record
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Motor trip from New York to California photograph album
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A photograph album covering an automobile trip from New York to California during the summer of 1921. Also: 22 loose photographs, two postcards, and a blank sheet of stationery from "Hotel Grant," Duchesne, Utah.
mssHM 82591
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Account of a trip from Missouri to California
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Written to his father and mother by T.J. Ables, this manuscript is an account of Ables' overland journey from Boonville, Missouri to California by way of the Oregon Trail. He arrived with friends after a journey of five months and two days, having departed Boonville on May 7. He writes of his slavery discussions with locals while in Kansas, his travels through Nebraska, and how he inscribed his name on Independence Rock. In Utah, his party's cattle were driven off by hostile Indians, and Ables and his companions pursued the Indians, eventually recovering thirty-six head. This was the only direct encounter Ables had with the Indians, but he heard of many others, including one woman who survived a scalping. Typescript copy.
mssHM 16763
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Road guide : a compilation of road maps, historical facts, motor trips and points of interest in San Diego County
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358600
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Official Map of San Diego County California : Compiled from Official Records and private sources / By Irving A. Hubon
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Map bears an MS note "Purchased in 1905." Also traces inland of a wagon trip in 1906 across now Imperial County and notes on a skiff abandoned south of Salton Sink in 1891. The Salton Sink is characterized as usually dry. Numerous MS notes. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS note: 302401.
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