Manuscripts

Bancroft, A. L. & Co. To Colton, John Burt. San Francisco, Calif

Description: In the handwriting of A. E. Parsons.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1884 Apr. 30
Call number: JA 1054
Creator: Jayhawker Party(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Edward T. Colton, 1930.; Asa Haines diary (JA 1051), gift of G. William Hume, September 1957.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.; RESTRICTED: Box 12: Asa Haines diary is fragile; use facsimile reproduction. Original available with curatorial approval only.

Colton, John Burt. To Colton, Chauncey S. San Francisco, Calif

Manuscripts

The collection contains letters, narratives, and eight large volumes of clippings related to the members of the Jayhawkers, their overland trip to the California gold fields through Death Valley, and their annual reunions held between 1872 to 1918. It also contains diaries by Asa Haines and Sheldon Young of the Jayhawkers' route and a map of Death Valley by William Lewis Manly, approximately 1889. The collection was assembled by John B. Colton (1831-1919), a member of the Jayhawker party. Participants in the collection include: John Wells Brier, Reverend James Brier, William Frederick Dody, Jessie Benton Fremont, John Groscup, Eliza Poor Donner Houghton, Charles Fletcher Lummis, William Lewis Manley, Charles B. Mecum, and Lorenzo Dow Stephens. The collection also includes items related to Mary Hunter Austin, Frederic Remington, and Theodore Roosevelt.

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Bancroft, A. L. & Co. To Colton, John Burt. San Francisco, Calif

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