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Register of the Small Overland Trail Collections, 1849-1859
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-Mss2.A866: ATHEARN COLLECTION

 

1) Prince A. Athearn overland diary (1849) [27 pp. typescript copy; 55 p. ms. copy]

 

2) "Stockton man's great grandsire laid keel of "Old Ironsides" Stockton Record (n.d.)

 

3) Donal W. Athearn, NYC to Prince A. Athearn, 12-17-40 [re genealogy of PAA]

 

4) Photograph of Prince Athearn School in Clements, Calif. (1936)

 

-Mss2.B415: BEERS (LEWIS) DIARY (1852) [46 pp. typescript copy]

 

-Mss2.F782: FOUTS (D. LAMBERT) DIARY (1849)

 

1) D. Lambert Fouts overland diary (1849) [83 pp.; also photocopy of same; incl. later business records kept by Fouts' sons Hiram & C.S. Ricks (1861-63)]

 

2) John W. Winkley notes on Fouts (n.d.) [25 pg. typescript]

 

3) Patricia A. Etter to Daryl Morrison, 4-8-95 [re diary & Fouts' fate; 2 pp. typescript]

 

-Mss2.H453: HEDGPETH (JOEL). "SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF A TRIP ACROSS THE PLAINS IN 1858-59"

 

1) Joel Hedgpeth memoir [14 pp. ms.]

 

2) Do. [14 pp. typescript copy]

 

3) 4 photographs of Joel Hedgpeth [copies]

 

4) 1 photograph of Mrs. Hedgpeth [copy]

 

5) 1 photograph of Joel & Mrs. Hedgpeth [copy]

 

6) 1 photograph of Joel Hedgpeth's name on "El Morro"

 

-MS 2 M 211: MCDANNALD, JOHN M.C., MCDANNALD, DAVID. This collection is a copy of a typescript entitled "A Story of Crossing the Plains in 1865," written by John T. McDannald III, using the diary of his father, David W. McDannald.

 

-Mss2.R521: ALPHEUS RICHARDSON DIARY (1852) [28 pp. typescript copy; 2nd copy]

 

-Mss2.S544: SHELLENBERGER (ROBERT). "MISSUS MCCLELLAN & THE RAGTOWN RUSTLERS...(1850)"

 

1) Shellenberger typescript (1978) [38 pp.; 2 drafts ]

 

2) Published version in The Far-Westerner 20:2 (April 1979)

 

3) Two notes from RS to James Shebl, Editor of The Far-Westerner (1978)

 

-Mss2.W395: WEEKS (LOVINA) DIARY (1859) [36 pp. typescript copy]

 

-Mss2.W835: WIXOM (DR. WILLIAM W.) DIARY (1851) [incl. 38 pp. typescript copy and photocopy of same]