Overland journey : from Missouri to California / by Bennett C. Clark, 1849.

1 v. (102 p.) ; 13 cm.

English

Original binding.

In 1928 the diary belonged to Clark's grandson, Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde, of Lexington, Missouri. It was given to the library by William Robertson Coe.

Clark, born in Booneville, Missouri, became a clerk of the Circuit Court of Cooper County in 1841, lived on his farm there from 1853-1874, and returned to Booneville in 1878 where he was elected judge of the Probate Court of the county. Clark was captain of a party of gold seekers from Cooper County in 1849 and returned by the Isthmus.

The journal describes a trip from Cooper County to Westport, across the Plains to Wakarusa Creek, by the Kansas River, the Big and Little Blue to the Platte, South Pass, Fort Hall, and to the Humboldt and Truckee Rivers. Clark mentions use of both the Ware and Ira J. Willis guides.

Bieber, Ralph Paul, ed. Missouri Historical Review. 23 (1928):3-43. Separately reprinted.

Reprint from Missouri Historical Review available.

June 01, 2002

Bennett C. Clark, Overland Journey from Missouri. Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Diaries - United States.