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A daily journal kept by N. J. and H. Bradley on an overland trip to California
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A daily journal kept by N. J. and H. Bradley on an overland trip to California /by Nancy Jane and Henry Bradley, 1852.
Physical Description
1 v. (92 p.) : 32 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Original binding.
Provenance
Gift of William Robertson Coe.
Biographical / Historical Note
Nancy Jane married Henry Bradley in 1847 and accompanied him to California in 1852.
Henry Bradley was born 1823 in Sidney, New York, moved to Elkhorn, Wisconsin in 1837, lived in California in 1852-1855 and 1859-1860, and settled in Elkhorn in 1860.
Summary
The Bradleys kept a journal of their 1852 trip west by way of Kanesville, the Platte, Fort Laramie, the Sweetwater, South Pass, Fort Bridger, Echo Creek, Salt Lake City, the Bear River Ferry, Blue and Pilot Springs, Goose Creek, and Thousand Springs Valley. It describes the country, road conditions, availability of water, camp sites, flowers, wild life, and mentions Mormons met on the trail.
Other formats
Available on microfilm.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Withington, M. C. Catalogue of Western Americana Manuscripts 45.
Nancy and Henry Bradley, A Daily Journal. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Cite as
Nancy and Henry Bradley, A Daily Journal. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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Genre/Form
Diaries - United States.
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