Title:

Luella Kenan Sawyer papers, 1924-1972

Creator/Contributor:

Sawyer, Luella Kenan., creator

Box: correspondence relating to her work for the Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs and the Sierra Club, including letters from John F. Baldwin, Liz Carpenter, Arthur B. Johnson, Orville Freeman, C. M. Goethe, H. H. Humphrey, Richard L. Neuberger, Fred R. Packard, James Roosevelt, John P. Saylor, William E. Siri, Stewart L. Udall, Buford Ellington, Walter S. Boardman, Albert R. Wetjen, John Welch and others; manuscripts of some of her writings; transcripts of letters from John Welch to Albert R. Wetjen re the building of the fihsing junk, Sea Dragon, in Hong Kong and its owner, Richard Halliburton. Volume: The House of Sawyer - contains genealogical material and photographs, compiled in 1924, with informatiton on Joseph Osborn Sawyer's construction work at Forts Leavenworth and Riley and on roads and bridges on the Santa Fe Trail, and his experiences during the cholera epidemic in the midwest in 1855, and during the Civil War.

Date:

1924 (issued)

Subject:

Sawyer, Luella Kenan

Halliburton, Richard -- 1900-1939

Sawyer family

Sawyer, Joseph Osborn -- 1808-1881

Baldwin, John Finley -- 1915-1966

Carpenter, Liz

Freeman, Orville L

Goethe, C. M. (Charles Matthias) -- 1875-1966

Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio) -- 1911-1978

Conservation of natural resources

Cholera

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

Fort Riley (Kan.)

Fort Leavenworth (Kan.)

Santa Fe National Historic Trail

1 box and 1 v.

English

BANC MSS 73/8 cLOCAL

Origin:

California