Mounted clippings from various Pacific Northwest newspapers of the 1880’s and ’90’s with a typewritten index.
Subject (Name):
Dart, Anson and Young, Brigham, 1801-1877
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life --Northwest, Pacific, Frontier and pioneer life --Oregon, Frontier and pioneer life --Washington (State), and Indians of North America --Wars --Northwest, Pacific
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
The album contains advertisements by other New Haven businesses on the front pastedown and versos of almost every photograph, although some versos are blank.
Description:
Letterpress captions on mounts., Probably distributed by C. M. Loomis, dealer in musical merchandise in New Haven, Connecticut., and Reduced images from Andrew J. Russell's The Great West Illustrated.
Subject (Geographic):
Green River Valley (Wyo.-Utah), Laramie (Wyo.), Salt Lake City, and West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
Austin, Henry, 1804-1891, Bundy, J. K., C.M. Loomi, J.N. Isbell & Co. (New Haven, Conn.), John E. Bassett & Company, Loomis, C. M. (Clark Merrick), 1829-1890, Russell, R. C., Union Pacific Railroad Company, Wheeler & Wilson Company, and Young, Brigham, 1801-1877
