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The trip of Chicago’s four hundred : typescript
Creator
Title
The trip of Chicago’s four hundred : typescript.
Production
Chicago, Illinois, 1893.
Physical Description
1 volume (46 pages)
Language
English
Notes
Title from front cover.
In English.
Provenance
Purchased from Robert H. Rubin Books on the Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 2018.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Biographical / Historical Note
David Rutter (1846- ) was a coal-yard operator in Chicago, Illinois, circa 1900.
Summary
Typescript diary, unsigned, completed by David Rutter documenting a trip taken via private rail car with members of Chicago’s business and social elite--Chicago’s “Four Hundred”--through Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, California, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and Nebraska, 1893 March 26-April 28. Among the locations visited are Kansas City, Kansas; Colorado Springs, La Junta, Leadville, and Manitou, Colorado; Santa Fe and Tesuque Pueblo, New Mexico; the Grand Canyon and Flagstaff, Arizona; Fresno, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Francisco, and Santa Barbara, California; Portland, Oregon; the Sawtooth Range, Owyhee River, and Snake River in Idaho; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Omaha, Nebraska. At Tesuque Pueblo, the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, and near the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Rutter comments on the living conditions of Native American peoples. He also comments on the presence of Chinese and Chinese American individuals in both California and Oregon.
Accompanied by 2 studio portraits of John M. Whitman, vice president of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, circa 1905. Whitman was among the individuals travelling with Rutter in 1893.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
December 11, 2019
References
David Rutter, Trip of Chicago’s Four Hundred. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Cite as
David Rutter, Trip of Chicago’s Four Hundred. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Diaries.
Photographs.
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