Fort Phil Kearny travel memoir

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Title: Fort Phil Kearny travel memoir
Creator: Williams, Henry, active 1867
Contributor: Bridger, Jim, 1804-1881
Williams, Henry, active 1867
Published / Created: 1867 October 30
Abstract: Autograph memoir by Henry Williams, written in 1867, recounting an 1866 journey from Fort Phil Kearny, Wyoming to Virginia City, Montana. Williams describes accompanying Jim Bridger from Fort Smith, Montana, along the Bozeman Trail to the Yellowstone River; Bozeman, Montana; and Virginia City, Montana. Williams describes the landscape and prospective locations for military forts.
Description: Henry Williams served as a guide for the United States Army at Fort Phil Kearny, Wyoming, 1866.
Purchased from Michael D. Heaston on the Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 2016.
Extent: 1 item (11 p.) ; 32 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: text
Genre: Manuscripts
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Geographic): Bozeman (Mont.)--Description and travel
Bozeman Trail--Description and travel
Fort Phil Kearny (Wyo.)
Montana--Description and travel
Virginia City (Mont.)--Description and travel
West (U.S.)--Description and travel
Wyoming--Description and travel
Yellowstone River--Description and travel
Subject (Name): Bridger, Jim, 1804-1881
Williams, Henry, active 1867
Subject (Topic): Fortification--West (U.S.)

Access: Public
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Citation: Henry Williams, Fort Phil Kearny Travel Memoir. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.