Includes a detailed account (p. 67) of MDB's actions as Customs Collector 1878-79; many of the clippings concern Sitka's appeal to a British warship for protection from native tribes in February 1879, and its aftermath
"Lettre de M. Visconti ... à M. de Humboldt, sur quelques monumens des peuples américains" (p. 299-304) dated: Paris, le 12 décembre 1812. and Added t.p.: Voyage de Humboldt et Bonpland. 1. ptie. Relation historique. Atlas pittoresque.
Thompson's diary describes his 1850 journey from St. Joseph to Sacramento and a trip home in 1851 from Nevada City by the Isthmus. Notes on the westward trip include distances and camps. He went overland to South Pass, Sublette's Cut-off, Fort Hall, the California Trail, the Humboldt and Truckee, and Nevada City. Returning, Thompson sailed from San Francisco on the Olive Branch for Panama, and from Chagres on the North America for New Orleans, reaching Lagrange, [Missouri ?].
Description:
Diary and transcript are stored in one case., Gift of William Robertson Coe., and Original binding.
Subject (Geographic):
California National Historic Trail. and West (U.S.)--Description and travel.
Subject (Name):
North America (Ship), Olive Branch (Ship), and Thompson, William P.,--fl. 1850-1852.
Subject (Topic):
Ocean travel., Overland journeys to the Pacific., and Overland journeys to the Pacific--1850.
Waybill of distances encampments and all important points and streams from the Missouri River at Old Fort Kearney across the Plains to California or the new El Dorado of the far West
Description:
Page numbers have been added in pencil and are not continued from journal section.
Choctaw Indians--Claims, Choctaw Indians--Government relations, Indians of North America--Claims, Indians of North America--Government relations, Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc., and Indians of North America--Treaties
Buddhist sanghas--California, Christian communities--California, Collective settlements--California, Communal living--California, Cooperative societies--California, Socialism--California, and T