Walter Doyle McLean Estate Digital Collection, bulk 1850-1910

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Scope and content:: In 1849, Hosea Dudley, ancestor of Walter Doyle McLean, sailed around Cape Hope in his journey from Boston to San Francisco. He later settled in the Coulterville area near what is now Yosemite National Park. Dudley Ranch became a stagecoach stop for travelers visiting the Yosemite Valley and surrounding region. The family collection includes a register of guests with the signatures of John Muir and Thomas Edison; journals; Miwok Indian baskets; mining nuggets; and other Gold Rush era artifacts.
Physical location:: The original analog records of Walter Doyle McLean Estate Collection reside at the Mariposa Museum and History Center.
Rules or conventions:: Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Collection Guide Author:: Carol Wilson University of California, Merced Library 5200 N. Lake Road Merced, CA 95343
Date Encoded:: This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-10-07 08:52:40 -0700 .

Restrictions:: A portion of the records have been digitized and are freely available online.
Terms of access:: This collection is intended to support teaching, research, and private study. Copyright is retained by McLean Family granted the University of California permission to transmit the works under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC 4.0) license. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.

Location of this collection:: UC Merced, Library and Special Collections

5200 North Lake Road

Merced, CA 95343, US