Diaries
Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest
Scope Note: Same as Getty AAT Diaries
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Sidney Smith Oregon Trail Diary
Collection — Folder MS File Box 1
Identifier: MS-65
Summary
Sidney Smith was among the first Americans to successfully make the overland journey to Oregon on what would become the Oregon Trail. He wrote this diary while travelling with the Peoria Party from Illinois to the Dalles in 1839.
Dates:
1839
Henry Harmon Spalding Notebook
Collection — Folder MS File Box 2
Identifier: MS-77
Summary
Henry H. Spalding was a Presbyterian missionary who arrived in the Oregon Territory in 1836. This notebook, which he compiled during the 1850s-1860s, contains writings relating to his daily life as a missionary, farmer and Indian agent.
Dates:
1850-1870