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1. Overland journey from Oregon City to Vancouver and Salt Lake City
- Creator:
- Jennings, Oliver
- Published / Created:
- 1851
- Call Number:
- WA MSS 273
- Image Count:
- 64
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- The account covers an 1851 trip from Oregon to Salt Lake City by way of Vancouver, the Columbia River, the Blue Mountains, Fort Boise, and Fort Hall. Jennings stayed at Fort Vancouver and wrote about the Rifle Regiment, the Hudson's Bay Company, and Indians. From Vancouver he went by river with R. Wilson, A. McKay, A. McArthur, K. Pritchette, and Lt. W. Wood, and later with Maj. J. Owen. The diary describes Mormons and notes figures in Oregon history. There is a sketch of Mt. Hood. and Typed transcript completely digitized.
- Description:
- Gift of William Robertson Coe. and Oliver Jennings, daguerreotypist.
- Subject (Geographic):
- California National Historic Trail, Fort Vancouver (Wash.), Washington (State)--Description and travel, and West (U.S.)--Description and travel
- Subject (Name):
- Hudson's Bay Company, Jennings, Oliver, McKay, Alexander, Ogden, Peter Skene, 1790-1854, Pritchette, Kintzing, Wilson, Robert, fl. 1851, Wood, William, fl. 1851, and Young, Brigham, 1801-1877
- Subject (Topic):
- Frontier and pioneer life--Washington (State), Indians of North America--Northwest, Pacific, and Mormons--Utah
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Overland journey from Oregon City to Vancouver and Salt Lake City