The diaries describe an 1849 expedition by way of St. Joseph, Fort Kearney, Fort Laramie, South Pass, Sublette's Cut-off, Bear River, Cantonment Loring, Raft River, the Humboldt, Lassen's Route to Deer Creek, and Bruff's camp. They contain maps and sk...
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Emmigration, across the continent, in 1849, to
Subject (Geographic):
California --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Maps, and West (U.S.) --Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889 and Washington City and California Mining Association
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Gold mines and mining --California --History --19th century --Personal narratives, Gold mines and mining --North America --History --19th century, Gold mines and mining --Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), Gold mines and mining --United States --History, and Gold mines and mining --West (U.S.) --History --19th century
Manuscript copy in Spanish of a 1793 Spanish land grant by Louisiana Governor Francisco Louis Hector Carondelet to Don Joseph Valliere, and signed by Carlos Trudeau, Royal and Private Surveyor of the Province of Louisiana. The grant contains a map sh...
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Joseph Valliere was a Captain in the Spanish Army and served in Louisiana; he died in 1799.
Subject (Name):
Bradley, W. A, Bringier, Louis, Louisiana.--Governor (1791-1797 : Carondelet), Louisiana.--Surveyor General's Office, Trudeau, Charles, Valliere, Joseph,---approximately 1799, Williams, H. H., and Wilson, John,--active 1841
Istanbul (Turkey) --Description and travel and Marmara, Sea of (Turkey)
Subject (Name):
Aveele, Johannes van den, d. 1727, engraver, Ayasofya Muzesi--Pictorial works, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792 --Bookplate, Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712, engraver, Orthodox Eastern Church, and Suleymaniye Camii (Istanbul, Turkey)--Pictorial works
Map of the colonization grants in Texas, made to the empresarios, (contractors,) Lorenzo de Zavala, Joseph Vehlien, and David G. Burnet; and now under the agency and control of "The Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company," January 1835 and Map of the colonization grants to Zavala, Verhlien & Burnet in Texas, belonging to The Galveston Bay and Texas Land Co.
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Includes "Inducements for persons to locate and colonize the lands within the grants of the company, and instructions how to proceed," signed and dated: New-York, January, 1835, Anthy.y Dey, Wm. H. Sumner, George Curtis, attorneys & trustees.
