Title:
Diary of Bill Zilhart: and related materials : ms. and typescript, 1853-1994 (bulk 1853-1916)
Creator/Contributor:
Zilhart, William., creator
Creator/Contributor:
Hoag, Helen.
Creator/Contributor:
Miller, Jeanne Thurlow.
Abstract:
Record of a journey with a wagon train from Pleasant Gap, Bates Co., Missouri to Santa Rosa, Calif. (Apr. 21 - Oct. 1, 1853)
by way of Blue and Platte Rivers, South Pass, Bear Valley, Raft River, Goose Creek, south side of the Humboldt River, Ragtown
[Nevada], Hope Valley, Volcano City, Grass Valley, Sacramento, Fremont, Napa and Sonoma Valleys.
Includes photocopies of a notebook, ca. 1887-1916, containing historical and genealogical information on the Hagans family,
some of whom travelled with the Zilhart wagon train. Also includes explanatory letters, 1994, by Jeanne Thurlow Miller and
supplementary biographical material collected by her.
Date:
1853 (issued)
Subject:
n-us-ca
Hagan family
Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Personal narratives
Note:
Part of a collection of diaries of overland journeys to California.
Microfilm contains typescript of Hoag transcript only.
Hagans family historical notebook : photocopy.
The original diary is no longer extant. The handwritten transcript was made by Miss Helen Hoag, with the help of her mother,
who at the age of thirteen had been part of the wagon train.
Hagans family historical notebook : FOR RESEARCH USE ONLY. REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED.
Type:
Diaries.
Overland journals-1849.
Physical Description:
print
Partial microfilm reel (15 exposures) : negative (BOX 538:16-17) and positive (BANC MSS C-F 50 Pt.I:14 FILM)
62 leaves (in 3 folders)
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC MSS C-F 50 FILM pt.I reel 2 (no. 11-16)
BANC MSS 95/129 c
BOX 538:16-17
Origin:
California
Copyright Note:
Hagans family historical notebook : FOR RESEARCH USE ONLY. REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED.