Forty-Niners – Letters, 1849, Salt Lake City, Utah

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“Letters by Forty Niners” in The Western Humanities Review, edited by Dale Morgan

Written from Great Salt Lake City in 1849

Letters by John B. Hazlip, James E. Squire, Beeson Townsend and others

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fosdick, Lucy H. – Across the Plains in ’61

Foster, Isaac G. and Mary Burrell – 1854, Illinois to California

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The Foster Family

Text describes travel by Isaac G. Foster and family, and by Mary Burrell and her family, including daughter Mary. Diary excerpts are from Mary Burrell, the daughter.

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Fouts, William – Diary, 1850

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Fox, Jared – Memorandum, 1852

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Memorandum of a trip from Delton, Sauk County, Wisconsin to Oregon and California, April 12, 1852 – Aug. 12, 1854

Frizzell, Lodisa – Across the Plains, 1852

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Furlong, Mary 1843 and Robert Gardner 1846-1847

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Two typed pages – Mary Furlong, When I Cross the Plains to Oregon, 1843

10 typed pages – Biography of Robert Gardner, 1846-1847

 

 

Gatton, Benjamin H. – From the Plains, 1849

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Letter written on the Road to California, 20 miles east of the South Pass, July 1st, 1849

Printed as “From the Plains” in the Illinois Daily Journal, September 28, 1849

Gibson, John T. – Journal of Western Travel, 1859

Gilbert, William W. – Diary, 1850

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Merrill Mattes research notes

Gilmore, Andrew Hall – Overland Journey to California, 1850

Goldsmith, Oliver – Overland in Forty-Nine, 1849

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Gordon, William A. – Diary, 1850 to California

Grahams, Calvin H. – Journal, 1853 to California

Gray, William H. – Journal, 1836-1837

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“The Unpublished Journal of William H. Gray, from December, 1836 to October, 1837.” The Whitman College Quarterly, Vol. XVI, No. 2, June 1913