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Finding Aid to the Walter Kerr Halsted California Manuscript
MS.634
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Title: Walter Kerr Halsted California Manuscript
Identifier/Call Number: MS.634
Contributing Institution:
Autry National Center, Braun Research Library
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.1 linear feet
(1 folder)
Date: after 1849
Abstract: This is a typed copy of a manuscript by Walter Kerr Halsted entitled "My Trip to California in '49," wherein Halsted recounts
the four years he spent traveling to and living in California, starting in 1849. Halsted was 91 at the time he wrote the original
manuscript.
creator:
Halsted, Walter Kerr, 1820-1911
This is an 18-paged typed copy of a manuscript by Walter Kerr Halsted entitled "My Trip to California in '49," wherein Halsted
recounts the four years he spent traveling to and living in California, starting in 1849. Halsted was 91 at the time he wrote
the original manuscript.
The extended title of the account is "My Trip to California in '49. Via boat to Panama, overland to the Pacific, and up the
coast to San Francisco by boat." The document describes Halsted's life in California during the gold rush days; lynching;
method of mining; Native Americans; and clipper ships.
Text:
Walter Kerr Halsted California Manuscript, after 1849, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry National Center, Los Angeles; MS.634.
Donated to the Library as part of the Munk Library of Arizoniana, 1910 April 7.
Processed by Glenna Schroeder, circa 1977-1981. Finding aid completed by Holly Rose Larson, NHPRC Processing Archivist, 2012
October 25, made possible through grant funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commissions (NHPRC).
Copyright has not been assigned to the Autry National Center. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Autry Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Autry National Center
as the custodian of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must
also be obtained by the reader.
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or contact library staff at rroom@theautry.org.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
California -- History -- 19th century
Diaries
Gold mines and mining -- California -- History
Indians of North America -- California
Lynching -- California
Manuscripts
Overland journeys to the Pacific
Panama Canal (Panama)
San Francisco (Calif.)
Travel literature
Typescript