The diary describes a journey from Albany, Illinois to Aspen, Colorado in the summer of 1886. The author and several other men drove horses overland to Kensaw, Nebraska, transported the stock by rail to Denver, and finally took them overland to Aspen. In Aspen, the author worked a mine with Ira Bacheler and others. Eddy comments on the towns they visited as well as the fields and crops. He occasionally mentions his partners, A. H. Hendrix who they met on the road, and the men he worked with in Aspen. The journal ends with the arrival of Eddy's wife and child in Aspen.
Description:
Diary has been written in from both directions. and The lower half of the first page of the journal has been torn off. Within the text, there is evidence that three pages were removed, but the narrative does not seem to be affected.
Subject (Geographic):
Aspen (Colo.), Colorado--Description and travel, Davenport (Iowa)--Description and travel, Glenwood (Iowa)--Description and travel, Homestead (Iowa)--Description and travel, Iowa City (Iowa)--Description and travel, Iowa--Description and travel, Nebraska--Description and travel, Plattsmouth (Neb.)--Description and travel, and West (U.S.)--Description and travel
Subject (Name):
Eddy, James A, Hendrix, A. H, Hightman, George, and Wagoner, G. A
Subject (Topic):
Horse industry--United States and Silver mines and mining--Colorado--Pitkin County
Kramm, Gustavus Lea, Albert Miller, 1808-1891 Lehman & Duval Lithrs
Published / Created:
1836
Call Number:
Zc29 836Le
Image Count:
1
Description:
Cover title: Notes on the Wisconsin Territory, particularly with reference to the Iowa District, or Black Hawk purchase. and Reprinted 1935 with title: The book that gave to Iowa its name.
Publisher:
H.S. Tanner,
Subject (Geographic):
Iowa--Description and travel and Wisconsin--Description and travel
Kramm, Gustavus Lea, Albert Miller, 1808-1891 Lehman & Duval Lithrs
Published / Created:
1935
Call Number:
Zc29 836Leb
Image Count:
1
Description:
Includes reprint of title page of original: Notes on Wisconsin territory ... by Lieutenant Albert M. Lea ... Philadelphia, H.S. Tanner, 1836. And of cover-title: Notes on the Wisconsin territory; particularly with reference to the Iowa district, or Black Hawk purchase.
Publisher:
State Historical Society of Iowa,
Subject (Geographic):
Iowa--Description and travel, Iowa--Names, and Wisconsin--Description and travel
