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- Creator:
- Downie, William, 1819-1894
Duneau, James - Published / Created:
- 1861 July 4-21
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2490
- Collection Title:
- William Downie papers relating to exploration of British Columbia
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 3
- Image Count:
- 20
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Diary
- Creator:
- Downie, William, 1819-1894
Duneau, James - Published / Created:
- 1860 February 17-November 26
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2490
- Collection Title:
- William Downie papers relating to exploration of British Columbia
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | 1a
- Image Count:
- 153
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Description:
- Several pages blank throughout.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Family Register, manuscript diary
- Published / Created:
- 1836-1839, undated
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2678
- Collection Title:
- Ethan Allen Hitchcock collection on Indian removal
- Container / Volume:
- Box 3 | Folder 14
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Geographic):
- Florida, Southern States, and United States--History--1815-1861
- Subject (Name):
- Hitchcock, Ethan Allen,--1798-1870, Jesup, Thomas Sidney,--1788-1860, United States.--Army--Military life, and United States.--Office of Indian Affairs
- Subject (Topic):
- Cherokee Indians, Choctaw Indians, Creek Indians, Creek War, 1836, Generals--United States, Indian agents, Indian Removal, 1813-1903, Indians of North America--Florida, Indians of North America--Government relations, Indians of North America--Treaties, Indians of North America--Wars--1815-1875, and Soldiers--United States
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Florida Indians
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1840-1841]
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2050 J774
- Image Count:
- 15
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 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 showing the location of the land on the White River in the present-day states of Arkansas and Missouri, and is impressed with the seal of the State of Louisiana, certified in English, dated December 7, 1840, and signed by L. Bringier, Surveyor General of Louisiana. The land grant copy is accompanied by an English translation of the grant and copies in an unidentified hand of three letters regarding the property including that of John Wilson to W. A. Bradley, Washington City (October 17, 1841); a letter to Wilson from [Beragency?], New Orleans (undated); and to John Wilson from H. H. Williams, New Orleans (June 19, 1841).
- Description:
- Joseph Valliere was a Captain in the Spanish Army and served in Louisiana; he died in 1799. and Purchased from Fred A. Rosenstock on the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 1975.
- 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
- Subject (Topic):
- Land grants--Arkansas. and Land grants--Missouri.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Joseph Valliere Spanish land grant papers
- Published / Created:
- 1929
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2611
- Collection Title:
- R. E. Blair collection of Western oil and mining investment prospectuses
- Container / Volume:
- Box 3 | Folder 60
- Image Count:
- 14
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Topic):
- Investments--United States, Mines and mineral resources--Arizona, Mines and mineral resources--Colorado, Mines and mineral resources--Nevada, Petroleum--Colorado, Petroleum--Louisiana, Petroleum--New Mexico, and Petroleum--Texas
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mid-Tex Company
- Call Number:
- Osborn d119
- Collection Title:
- [Travel diary]
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Anonymous manuscript; chronicles of a tour of France and Switzerland
- Subject (Geographic):
- Geneva (Switzerland : Canton)
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Plan de Geneve
- Published / Created:
- [1891]
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-1404
- Collection Title:
- James W. Forsyth papers
- Container / Volume:
- 11 (Oversize) | Folder 193
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Name):
- Forsyth, James W. (James William), 1836-1906
- Subject (Topic):
- Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Scene of the fight with Big Foot's Band, December 29th, 1890, showing the position of the troops when first shot was fired. From sketches by Lt. S. A. Cloman, Acting Engineer Officer, Division of the Missouri (printed map)
- Call Number:
- WA MSS 443
- Collection Title:
- Isaac Ingalls Stevens papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 2 | Folder 29
- Image Count:
- 51
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Contents: "Itinerary of the march of the Right Wing of the Second Regiment of the W.T. Vols. under command of Lieutenant Colonel Shaw, from Montgomery's to Grande Ronde," Jun 12-Aug 29, 1856. To Governor I. I. Stevens. 49 p. Map, "Plan of the battle of Grande Ronde fought Jul 17, 1856." 18.5 x 22 cm.
- Subject (Name):
- De Lacy, W. W. (Walter Washington), 1819-1892, Shaw, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1829 or 1830-1908, and Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Delacy, Walter Washington]
- Creator:
- Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889
- Published / Created:
- 1849 September-October
- Call Number:
- WA MSS 50
- Collection Title:
- Diaries, journals, and notebooks
- Container / Volume:
- Box 5
- Image Count:
- 59
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- 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 sketches from the journey and notes on life in California. The journals were written from the diaries. The notebooks contain more sketches from the trip and of equipment. There are memoranda of supplies and equipment, routes, and remedies.
- 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
- Subject (Topic):
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Diary of J. G. Bruff]