Oregon-California Trails Association | Norton, Col. L. A.

Norton, Col. L. A. – 1852 to California

Merrill J. Mattes Collection·

Eight printed pages of an article in a magazine

Norton, Col. L. A. “My Overland Trip to California in 1852.” Pony Express Courier, September-October1934

Printed pages from a book

Norton, Col. L. A. Life and Adventures of Col. L. A. Norton. Oakland, California: Pacific Press Publishing House, 1887
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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.