Oregon-California Trails Association | Cook, Walker – Emigrant Accounts of Well Known Campsites

Cook, Walker – Emigrant Accounts of Well Known Campsites

Cave Springs Collection·

Nine typed pages

Walter L. Cook research on “Emigrant Accounts of Well Known Campsites on the Blue Prairie Along the Independence to Santa Fe, Oregon, and California Trails in Jackson County, Missouri 1845 to 1853”

The collection was begun in 1991 by the late Merrill J. Mattes, a co-founder of the Oregon-California Trails Association. That original nucleus was a result of a generous donation from Merrill and reflected his many years as an award-winning National Park Service historian and also included works of his own authorship. The collection is housed at the national Frontier Trails Museum in Independence, Missouri. Here, you have access to many of the original trail diaries he collected in digital form.