John Cumming California Gold Rush and western migration research files
Arrangement
A - Bell
"Acquisition of California:" photocopy of Chapter LV from Fifty years and over of Akron and Summit county (1892)
Adrian Michigan Expositor: transcriptions of Gold Rush letters (1849)
Adrian Michigan Expositor: transcriptions of Gold Rush letters (1849-1855)
Adrian Michigan Expositor and other newspapers: transcriptions of Gold Rush letters (1849-1857)
Adrian Weekly Times: transcriptions of Gold Rush letters (1873-1878)
Anonymous Diary, Michigan to California: transcription (1854-1933)
Articles of Association; gold seekers traveling from Michigan to California: negative photostat from Bancroft Library (1849-1850)
Ashley, D. R.: account of trip from Monroe, MI, to California: negative photostat from Bancroft Library (1849-1850)
Baker, Hozial: photocopy of "Overland journey to Carson Valley, Utah" (1859)
Baker, Milo: photocopy of transcription of 1850 diary, published in Michigan Heritage (1850)
Bates, Morgan: copy of his journal and associated letters, also Abner Pratt (1849-1981)
Bell, Orrin: photocopies of Gold Rush letters (1853-1973)
Bell, Orrin: transcriptions of Gold Rush letters (1853-1854)
Bell, Orrin: transcriptions of Gold Rush letters (1853-1855)
Blackwood - Couper
Blackwood, Jane: typescripts of Gold Rush letters from California (1853-1854)
Blackwood, Jane and Thomas: typescripts of Gold Rush letters from California (1849-1850)
Blackwood, Jane and Thomas: transcriptions of Gold Rush letters (1849-1853)
Blackwood family: transcriptions of Gold Rush letters from various family members (1849-1850)
Blackwood diary: typescript [1849?]
Bonine diary: transcription of Gold Rush diary (1849)
Bordwell's Opera House: Saginaw Courier-Herald transcribed articles (1895)
Bordwell's Opera House: transcription of deposition of witness Frankie Howe (1895)
Branch County Journal: transcriptions of Gold Rush letters (1850-1853)
Burral, George: transcription of 1849 diary from Newberry Library (1849)
California letters: transcriptions of letters [probably published in Michigan Expositor] (1849-1850)
Card, Cicero: photocopy of diary to Montana Territory (1863-1866)
Centerville Western Chronicle: transcriptions of Gold Rush letters (1849-1850)
Clifton, John: Chapter 3 of More than gold in California, 1849-1933 from Bancroft Library (1933)
Coldwater Sentinel: transcripts of Gold Rush letters (1850-1852)
Couper, John C.: condensed extracts from diary, photocopy of typescript (1852)
Cumming, John, 1915-
Cumming, John, 1915-: Around the Horn (essay regarding Dr. Thomas Blackwood) [undated]
Cumming, John, 1915-: Ever Westward [undated]
Cumming, John, 1915-: Ever Westward [undated]
Cumming, John, 1915-: Exodus '49 [undated]
Cumming, John, 1915-: Ho for California!!! [undated]
Cumming, John, 1915-: Dr. James Delavan and the Rocky Bar Company [undated]
Cumming, John, 1915-: James Delavan and the Rocky Bar Company, transcribed from the Adrian Michigan Expositor [undated]
Cumming, John, 1915-: The Long Road to California (essay regarding William Lewis Manly) (1849-[undated])
Cumming, John, 1915-: Michigan Argonauts: A list of Michigan people who migrated to California during the Gold Rush period [undated]
Cumming, John, 1915-: On the Road to El Dorado [undated]
Cumming, John, 1915-: On the Road to El Dorado [undated]
Cumming, John, 1915-: The Panama Route [undated]
Cumming, John, 1915-: The Wolverine Rangers [undated]
Daily - Hammond
The Daily Commercial and other items: transcriptions of letters from California (1845)
The Daily Commercial and The Enquirer and Message: transcriptions of letters about California (1844-1845)
The Daily Commercial: transcriptions of letters (1844)
Daughters of Utah Pioneers-Central Company: copy of printed "They Came in '48" (1948, Sep.)
Detroit Free Press: transcriptions of Gold Rush letters (1849-1850)
Detroit Free Press: transcriptions of articles about California (1849-1850)
Detroit Free Press: transcriptions of articles about Michigan (1849-1850)
Foster, William C.: typescript letter, overland travel (1850, Oct. 9)
Genesee Whig: typescripts of Gold rush letters (1851)
Genesee Whig: typescripts of letters about various topics (1851)
Genesee Whig and others: typescripts of Gold Rush letters (1849-1853)
Gold Rush Index: typescript, probably by John Cumming, 1915- [undated]
Gold Rush Notes: contains original manuscript items and letters (1839-1851)
Gold Rush Publications: typescript list of published Gold Rush accounts [undated]
Goss, Milo J. and family: typescripts of Gold Rush letters (1849-1853)
Grand Rapids: negative photostat of Gold Rush diary (1849)
Grand Rapids Daily Eagle: typescripts of letters about Wyoming and Utah (1870)
Grand Rapids Enquirer: typescripts of Gold Rush letters (1849-1853)
Green, Edmund: typescript of "Reminiscences of a Pioneer" diary (1849)
Hammond, William: essay entitled "On the Road to California in 1852," from letters to the Marshall Statesman (1852)
Hanchette - Miscellaneous
Hanchette, William: photocopies of newspaper columns and transcriptions of Gold Rush letters published in Coldwater Sentinel (1851-1852)
Hanchette, William: transcriptions of letters written from Sacramento, published in Coldwater Sentinel (1853)
Harlan, George: photocopy of court proceedings (1839-1972)
Harner, Samuel: photocopies of letters by Harner and other items (1853-1972)
Hillsdale Standard: transcriptions of Gold Rush letters (1849-1850)
Holbrook, Silas: transcriptions of Gold Rush letters from Branch County Journal and Coldwater Sentinel (1851-1852)
Holbrook, Silas: transcriptions of Gold Rush letters from Coldwater Sentinel (1851-1852)
Isham, G. S.: photocopy of "Guide to California and the Mines" (1850)
Jackson Citizen: transcriptions of Gold Rush letters (1849-1852)
Jonesville Telegraph: transcriptions of Gold Rush letters (1850-1852)
Kalamazoo Gazette: transcriptions of Gold Rush letters (1849-1851)
Kellogg, George: transcription of letter to wife from Acapulco, Mexico and other items (1852-1908)
The Knoxville Journal: transcriptions of Gold Rush letters (1849-1851)
Lake Superior Journal: transcriptions of letters about Michigan (1849-1850)
Mann, H. E.: mimeographed copy of portion of diary (1849)
Maps [undated]
Marvin, D. S.: transcription of letter, also Gold Rush related items (1815-1849)
Marshall Statesman: transcriptions of letters, including Kansas and California (1850-1854)
Marshall Statesman: transcriptions of Gold Rush letters, also from Democratic Expounder (1849-1855)
Marshall Statesman: transcriptions of Gold Rush letters (1848-1852)
Miscellaneous Ephemera (1833-1908)
Morrill - Schutt
Morrill, Henry Codman: transcriptions of diary around Cape Horn (1849-1989)
Myrick, Thomas s.: typescripts of letters (1849-1851)
Myrick, Thomas s.: typescripts of letters to The Jackson Citizen (1850-1853)
New York Daily Tribune: typescripts of letters from California and upper Midwest region (1848-1849)
Niles Republican: typescripts of articles about upper Midwest region (1847-1860)
Niles Republican: typescripts of Gold Rush letters (1849-1850)
Norris, Joe: copy of article about Gold Rush in Detroit Historical Society Bulletin (1958, Dec.)
Oakland (Mich.) Gazette: typescripts of articles, also notes concerning Adams family history (1848-1866)
Parish, G.: typescript of portions of Gold Rush diary (from Clarke Historical Library) (1852)
Pontiac Gazette: typescripts of Gold Rush letters (1849-1874)
Rathbone, A. D.: The Man with the Catgut Bear: A tale of Pere Marquette (poem) [1940]
Reel Index: microfilm of "California County and Regional Histories," Research Publications, and other items (1876-1904)
Runyan, I.: Journal whilst Crossing the Plains typescript (1852)
Saginaw Daily Courier: typescripts of letters concerning mining in Colorado and elsewhere (1876-1885)
Sandusky Clarion: typescripts of articles about upper Midwest and Oregon (1827-1843)
SAS Institute: data printout, California census (1852)
Schutt, H. R.: typescript of Journal of a visit to Oregon and California in the summer of 1850 and the return in 1854 overland (1850-1854)
Seeley - Wheeler
Seeley-Phelps: diary, typescript of The Story of a Party of Michigan men as they traveled Toward the Land of Promise (1850)
Sherman, W. T.: "The California Gold Fields in 1848", copies of two letters by Sherman, housed in the Beinecke Library made for Frederick Beinecke in 1964 (1964)
Smith, Chester: diary published in the Colorado Genealogist Vol. 38, no. 1 (1977)
Spooner: typescript of diary (1849-1850)
Strang, James W.: typescript of newspaper accounts (LDS church) (1851-1882)
Sutton, Richard: letters transcribed by Mabel Horning McGehee, pp. 1-99 (1853-1856)
Sutton, Richard: letters transcribed by Mabel Horning McGehee, pp. 100-109 (1853-1856)
Sutton, Richard: letters transcribed by Mabel Horning McGehee, pp. 200-299 (1853-1856)
Sutton, Richard: letters transcribed by Mabel Horning McGehee, pp. 300-427 (1853-1856)
Tecumseh Herald: typescripts of Gold Rush letters (1850-1909)
United States: typescripts of Gold Rush letters from Morgan Bates, Thomas Blackwood and S. W. Higgins (1845-1852)
Van Gordon, Ira: biographical sketch [after 1868]
The Vigilance Committee: typescript of letter from Alonzo Delano to the Adrian Michigan Expositor (1851, Aug. 1)
Watrous Letters: typescripts of letters to Democratic Expounder (1851)
Wheeler, Enos: typescripts of letters (1852)
Wisner - Various
Wisner, Charles O.: typescripts of letters (1852-1854)
Wisner, Charles O.: typescript of journal (1852-1854)
Wixom, W. W.: copy of journal made in 1954 from typescript version (from University of the Pacific) (1851-1993)
Wolverine Rangers: Gold Rush letters from this emigrant company to Marshall Statesman (1849-1850)
Woodman, Jane Harris: photocopies of typescripts of letters written to her husband in Gold Rush California (1851-1981)
Wooster, David: photocopies of letters from California (1858-1859)
Wooster, David: typescripts of letters to Adrian Michigan Expositor (1850-1853)
Unidentified Bancroft: negative photostats of letters from the Bancroft Library (1849)
Various: copies and transcripts of letters to assorted Michigan newspapers (1849-1859)
Various Biographical Sketches: typescripts from multiple publications [undated]