Travel diary, 1894 Jun-Oct.

1 v. (197 p.) ; 17 cm.

English

Journal of a pleasure trip to Yellowstone, Alaska, and Banff. Eliza Clendenin describes her travels from St. Louis by train and steamship to Minneapolis, Yellowstone Park, Montana, Washington, Alaska, Canada, Oregon, and California. She writes of dinners, dancing, sightseeing, restaurants and hotels, and people she and her party befriend in their travels. Cities and places visited and described by Clendenin include Minneapolis; Helena, Montana; Spokane; Seattle; Lake Cushman; Juneau; Fort Wrangel, Alaska; Tacoma; Portland, Oregon; the Lick Observatory; San Francisco; and Monterey. In Helena, their party is visited by Charles M. Russell, presumably a friend from St. Louis, and there are three pencil sketches by Russell on pages of the diary. An 1890 photograph of Eliza Clendenin and Edward M. Russell (by photographer F. W. Guerin of St. Louis) accompanies the volume.

Available on microfilm as part of the Beinecke Library's Frontier Women III microfilm set.

June 01, 2002

Eliza Clendenin, Travel Diary. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Eliza Clendenin, Travel Diary. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.