Oregon-California Trails Association | Tramble, Louis

Tramble, Louis – Letters, 1849 in California

Merrill J. Mattes Collection·

Nine typed pages

Notices and letters that appeared in the Illinois Republican, Belleville, Illinois

Notices are of a letter received from J. Murray Morrison, and the deaths of John Boismenue and Louis Tramble in 1849 in California

Letters of Louis Tramble were written August 6, August 18, and September 8, 1849

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.