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William B. Meek notebooks, approximately 1933.
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Title:

William B. Meek notebooks, approximately 1933

Creator/Contributor:

Meek, William B. (William Bull), 1856 or 1857-1936, creator, creator.

Abstract:

Collection of 6 stenographers notebooks containing the manuscript autobiography of William B. Meek, a famous California stagecoach driver. Includes a 7th notebook containing information on other stage lines and transportation routes. The autobiography was written in the early/mid-1930s, a few years before Meek's death in 1936.

Date:

1933 (issued)

Subject:

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Pioneers -- California -- Biography
Coach drivers -- California -- Biography
Coach drivers -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Biography
Stagecoaches -- California -- History
Stagecoaches -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- History
Pionniers -- Californie -- Biographies
Cochers -- Californie -- Biographies
Cochers -- Nevada, Sierra (Calif. et Nev.) -- Biographies
Diligences -- Californie -- Histoire
Diligences -- Nevada, Sierra (Calif. et Nev.) -- Histoire
Stagecoaches
Pioneers
Coach drivers
California -- History
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- History
Californie -- Histoire
Nevada, Sierra (Calif. et Nev.) -- Histoire
United States -- Sierra Nevada
California
E Clampus Vitus (Fraternal order) -- Biography
Wells, Fargo & Company -- Biography
Wells, Fargo & Company.
E Clampus Vitus (Fraternal order)
Meek, William B. (William Bull) -- 1856 or 1857-1936

Note:

Meek, William B. The life story of William B. Meek. Berkeley, CA : California Gold Publications, ©2005. 9780965824071
Gift Of Mountain Range Lodge #18; 2013.
William Bull Meek was born on Christmas day on either 1956 or 1957 in Californiai. He was a pioneer stagecoach driver, former Yuba County assessor, local merchant, Wells Fargo agent, E Clampus Vitus member, and an authority on California history. He died January 23, 1936 in Camptonville, Yuba County, California, at the age of 79.
William B. Meek notebooks, BANC MSS 2014/140, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.

Type:

biography
History.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Autobiography
Biography
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.

Physical Description:

print
0.2 (1

Language:

English

Origin:

California