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This is my trip from Texas to California

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Description: This typescript of Edward Hawkins Rogers' diary details his overland trip to California from Denton County, Texas. His group, which includes his wife and son, as well as several other emigrants, takes the Butterfield Overland Trail through Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. Rogers mentions the Butterfield Overland Stage Line stations as his group passes them. He talks about the hardships of the trail including the birth and death of his infant daughter, lack of food and water, and fear of attacks by Indians.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1869, May 7-November 13.
Call number: mssHM 66498
Creator: Rogers, Edward Hawkins(Opens in new tab)

Reminiscences and experiences on my trip across the plains to California sixty-one years ago when I drove four mules to a covered wagon

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The reminiscences of J.T. Redman driving a four mule covered wagon across the plains from St. Louis, Missouri to Sacramento, California in 1863. Redman at age 20 first traveled by boat from St. Louis to Hannibal, then by rail to St. Joseph and most of the way on the Butterfield Overland Trail.

mssHM 20462

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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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Joseph Allan Nevins diary of a trip from Illinois to California

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This manuscript is Nevins' account of his journey from Illinois to California via the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads, and then by steamboat through the Panama Canal to New York. Much of it is description of the countryside, towns, and inhabitants he visits en route. He arrived in San Diego, CA, on February 21, 1874, and prospected for three weeks without success, then boarded the boat. Upon reaching Panama, there was a delay, as the ship Nevins was to take was being repaired; he writes "The waiting here is very irksome. I fear the folks at home will be anxious about us." Dated January 10 through April 1. Also included is 15-page typescript of the original.

mssHM 26339

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Trip, 1971

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Correspondence and other papers of Warren Lee Rogers and Clinton Clarke dealing with the Pacific Crest Trail. Included are Clarke's publications, the Y-Relays correspondence, photographs, radio scripts, participants' surveys and transcribed portions of the log book; the PCT registers and hikers' correspondence, maps, visitor guides and brochures of national forests and parks in Washington, Oregon, California and elsewhere. Correspondents include Ansel Adams, Hanson W. Baldwin, Devereux Butcher, Oscar L. Chapman, Ernest A. Dench, Newton Bishop Drury, Roland C. Geist, Francis P. Farquar.

Series 4: Rogers' Businesses

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Trip West, 1941

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Series 7: Rogers' Personal Papers

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Series 2: Y-Relays

This is my trip from Texas to California

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