Overland journey : from Independence, Missouri to Weaverville, California

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Title: Overland journey : from Independence, Missouri to Weaverville, California
Creator: Krill, Abram.
Contributor: Krill & Bamber
Krill, Abram.
Published / Created: 1850-1851
Abstract: The diary records the trip from Missouri to California by way of the Platte, the Sweetwater, Sublette's Cut-off, the Humboldt, the Carson, Pleasant Valley, and Weaverville. It also contains expenditures, accounts of gold mining and Krill & Bamber's grocery trade in California.
Description: Accompanied by a daguerreotype of Krill & Bamber's grocery and provision store near Hangtown.
Gift of William Robertson Coe.
Krill, who lived in Washington Township, Wood County, Ohio, traveled to California in 1850.
Original binding.
Two diaries and daguerreotype stored in a case.
Extent: 2 v. (153 p.): 15 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: text
Genre: Account books--United States.
Daguerreotypes--United States.
Diaries--United States.
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Geographic): California--Gold discoveries--Personal narratives.
West (U.S.)--Description and travel.
Subject (Name): Krill & Bamber
Krill, Abram.
Subject (Topic): Gold mines and mining--California.
Grocery trade--California.
Overland journeys to the Pacific.
Overland journeys to the Pacific--1850.

Access: Public
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Citation: Abram Krill, Overland Journey from Independence. Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Withington, M. C. Catalogue of Western Americana Manuscripts 288.