Oregon-California Trails Association | History of Farmersville, California

History of Farmersville, California – 1979

Merrill J. Mattes Collection·

Two typed pages of article

“An account of Thomas J Brundage travels to Montana in 1864 and California in 1865, and subsequent life in Farmersville, California.” Exeter Sun 7 Feb 1979

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.