Oregon-California Trails Association | Wistar, Isaac Jones

Wistar, Isaac Jones – Autobiography, 1827-1905

Cave Springs Collection·

13 printed pages from a book

Autobiography of Isaac Jones Wistar, 1827-1905, Half a Century in War and Peace” New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers [1938]

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.