Oregon-California Trails Association | James, Edwin – 1819-20 from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains

James, Edwin – 1819-20 from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains

Merrill J. Mattes Collection·

67 printed pages from a book

James, Edwin. Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains Performed in the years 1819, 1820. By order of the Hon. J. C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the command of Maj. S. H. Long of the U.S. Top. Engineers. Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites. Vol. 1, Cleveland, Ohio: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1905

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.