Diary of Edward J. Willis. Giving account of travel from Independence Missouri to California in
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Abstract:
The diary records the journey from a camp near Independence by way of the Santa Fe´ road, Kansas and Blue rivers, Fort Kearney, the Platte, South Fork, Ash Hollow, Fort Laramie, South Pass, Sublette’s Cut-off, Fort Hall, the California Trail, the Humboldt and Truckee, and the mines on the north fork of Bear River. Soon after leaving Independence, Willis’s party joined an Indiana company camped near the Charlestown [Va.] Company.
Spruce M. Baird was born in Glasgow, Kentucky in 1814, and taught school there prior to moving to Texas before the Civil War. He practiced law in Nacogdoches, Texas, served as judge in Santa Fe County (in what became New Mexico), was Indian agent to the Navajos, and was appointed attorney general of New Mexico. Baird returned to Texas during the Civil War and served as a regiment commander in the Confederate army. In 1867 he moved to Trinidad, Colorado where he opened a law office. He died at Cimarron, New Mexico in 1872. He was married in 1848 to Emmacetta Bowdry of Kentucky and was the father of Andrew Bowdry Baird.
Subject (Geographic):
Missouri--Description and travel
Subject (Topic):
Railroad travel--United States and Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Albuquerque (N.M.)--Description and travel, Arkansas River--Description and travel, Chihuahua (Mexico : State)--Description and travel, Matamoros (Tamaulipas, Mexico)--Description and travel, Mississippi River--Description and travel, New Mexico--Description and travel, New Orleans (La.)--Description and travel, and Ohio River--Description and travel