Photographs, tour diaries, correspondence and other documents relating to Adelaide Bartelme's horseback tours of the Canadian Rockies in 1924, 1925 and 1926. Over 400 photographs from the trips, many captioned and dated in pencil on verso, document Ba...
Description:
Adelaide Bartelme, an American, took several tours of the Canadian Rockies with various guides, including Caroline Hinman and Charles Maynard, in the 1920s.
Subject (Geographic):
Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.), Louise, Lake, Region (Alta.), Banff National Park (Alta.), West (U.S.), Alberta, and Brewster's Kananaskis Guest Ranch (Banff, Alta.)
Subject (Name):
Bartelme, Adelaide., Hinman, Caroline., and Maynard, Charles.
Subject (Topic):
Description and travel, Tourism, Tourists, Women, Women explorers, and Assiniboine Indians
Photographs, tour diaries, correspondence and other documents relating to Adelaide Bartelme's horseback tours of the Canadian Rockies in 1924, 1925 and 1926. Over 400 photographs from the trips, many captioned and dated in pencil on verso, document Ba...
Description:
Adelaide Bartelme, an American, took several tours of the Canadian Rockies with various guides, including Caroline Hinman and Charles Maynard, in the 1920s.
Subject (Geographic):
Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.), Louise, Lake, Region (Alta.), Banff National Park (Alta.), West (U.S.), Alberta, and Brewster's Kananaskis Guest Ranch (Banff, Alta.)
Subject (Name):
Bartelme, Adelaide., Hinman, Caroline., and Maynard, Charles.
Subject (Topic):
Description and travel, Tourism, Tourists, Women, Women explorers, and Assiniboine Indians
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 sk...
Description:
Bruff was a draftsman in the Bureau of Topographical Engineers. He organized and led an 1849 expedition by Washington City and California Mining Association.
Subject (Geographic):
California and West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889. and Washington City and California Mining Association.
Subject (Topic):
Overland journeys to the Pacific and Description and travel
The diary records an 1874 voyage from New York via Panama to California. The unidentified author describes the weather, the ship's progress, shipboard life, Aspinwall (Colón), Panama, the train trip across the Isthmus, the landscape and villages, Aca...
Subject (Geographic):
Nevada., United States., West (U.S.), Acapulco (Mexico), Colón (Panama), California, Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.), Nevada, Panama, Salt Lake City (Utah), and San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Central Pacific Railroad Company., Colon (Steamship), Montana (Steamship), Panama Railroad Co., and Union Pacific Railroad Company.
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture, Alfalfa, Railroad travel, and Description and travel
Sarah Davis's diary records her 1850 trip across the plains with her husband. Entries describe the scenery and trail conditions. Several pages of notes by her husband at the front of the diary indicate he had traveled to California once before in 1849...
Description:
Available on microfilm as part of the Beinecke Library's Frontier Women microfilm set.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
Davis, Sarah Green.
Subject (Topic):
Overland journeys to the Pacific and Description and travel
The diary was written on the road but not every day. It records the journey from Zanesville, Ohio, to Independence, and in more detail the preparations for the journey at Independence, the country traversed and the camping places along the Platte and ...
Description:
The Granville Company consisted of 32 people traveling to California in 1849.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
Granville Company.
Subject (Topic):
Overland journeys to the Pacific and Description and travel
4 undated typescript documents (13 p.), apparently drafts written by John N. E. Brown for an unpublished biography of his wife, Faith Fenton, after her death in 1936: an annotated draft of Chapter One, titled "Memories of Faith Fenton", describes Brow...
Description:
Faith Fenton was the pen name of Alice Freeman, a Toronto school teacher who wrote newspaper columns for the Toronto Globe and the Toronto Empire in the 1890s. In 1898, she became the Globe's special correspondent in the Yukon Territory, and accompani...
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.), Canada., Yukon, Klondike River Valley., and Dawson (Yukon)
Subject (Name):
Brown, John N. E. (Nelson Elliot), Fenton, Faith, 1857-1936., McIntosh, A. A., Ogilvie, William, 1846-1912., Globe and Mail (Firm), and Canada. Canadian Army. Yukon Field Force.
Subject (Topic):
Women, Women journalists, Women pioneers, Frontier and pioneer life, and Description and travel
S. Francis's diary from 1841-1845 describes country life in Vermont and for 1845-1852 records weather, crops, and politics in Illinois. The diary describes an 1852 trip from Illinois to Oregon by way of Des Moines, Kanesville, the Platte to Fort Laram...
Description:
S. Francis, who was a farmer in Barnard, Vermont, moved his family to Illinois in 1846 and emigrated to Oregon in 1852.
Subject (Geographic):
Illinois., Oregon., Illinois, Oregon Territory, Oregon, and West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
Francis, Samuel Dexter, 1814-1891.
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture, Frontier and pioneer life, Overland journeys to the Pacific, History, and Description and travel
