West (U.S.) -- Description and travel
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Justin Chenoweth papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 237
Abstract
Handwritten diary, letterbooks, and documents relating to Justin Chenoweth's travel to Oregon and work as a surveyor, mail carrier, and justice of the peace in Oregon and Washington Territory, primarily from the years 1848 to 1862. Includes family correspondence.
Dates:
1848-1898
Abigail Scott Duniway papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss432
Abstract
A small collection of papers of Abigail Scott Duniway, who was an emigrant to Oregon, an editor, and an advocate of women's suffrage. Includes records of the Oregon State Equal Suffrage Association, records of the Duniway Publishing Company, and copy of a typescript transcription of Duniway's overland diary, 1852.
Dates:
1852-1915; Majority of material found within 1880-1915
Robert Stuart diary excerpts
Collection
Identifier: Mss 2933
Abstract
Typescript excerpts from a diary, 1812-1813, regarding Robert Stuart's journey across North America from Astoria, Oregon, to New York, New York.
Dates:
1812-1813
Tyler Woodward papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 7
Abstract
The bulk of the collection consists of an original manuscript and a typescript copy of a narrative by Tyler Woodward, titled "Forty-Five Years on the Pacific Coast," circa 1905. The collection also includes an original typescript and a typescript copy of an 1895 autobiographical sketch. Woodward (1835-1914) was born in Vermont and emigrated to the West in 1860, first living in California and later in Nevada, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. He was involved in construction of a streetcar system in...
Dates:
1895-circa 1905