Finding Aid to the Walter Kerr Halsted California Manuscript MS.634
Holly Rose Larson
Library and Archives at the Autry
2012 October 25
210 South Victory Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91502
rroom@theautry.org
Contributing Institution:
Library and Archives at the Autry
Title: Walter Kerr Halsted California Manuscript
Creator:
Halsted, Walter Kerr
Identifier/Call Number: MS.634
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.
Language of Material:
English
.
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.
Walter Kerr Halsted California Manuscript, after 1849, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, 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).
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Travel literature
Indians of North America -- California
Lynching -- California
Diaries
Gold mines and mining -- California -- History
San Francisco (Calif.)
California -- History -- 19th century
Overland journeys to the Pacific
Panama Canal (Panama)
Manuscripts
Typescripts