Oregon-California Trails Association | Vanbuskirk, William and Mary

Vanbuskirk, William and Mary – 1852, Ohio to Oregon

Merrill J. Mattes Collection·

Six typed pages

This is an account of William and Mary Vanbuskirk and their sons and daughters and families, 23 people in the company. Diary is that of son Andrew Vanbuskirk.

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.