Oregon-California Trails Association | Lee, Williams

Lee, Williams – 1858-1859 to Utah

Merrill J. Mattes Collection·

150 typed and handwritten pages

A copy of my notes taken while on a journey across the plains from Washington to Genoa, Carson Valley, Utah.

From April 11th 1858 to Oct. 25th 1859

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.