Sacramento (Calif.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Moses F. Little papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-1028
Abstract:
A collection of 58 journals recording 72 years of Moses Little's life. He spent 1844-1848 aboard the whaler Arnolda, commanded by Captain D. U. Coffin out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. In 1849, Little joined the Sagamore Mining and Trading Company of Lynn, Massachusetts, and traveled to California, returning in 1851. Making a second trip to California in 1852 via the Isthmus to Panama City, he sailed on the Tennessee. He...
Dates:
1841-1916
Thomas J. Van Dorn papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-1319
Abstract:
The papers consist of Thomas J. Van Dorn's letters to his wife, Henrietta Frances Wilbur Van Dorn, and his diary of an 1849 journey of a Jerseyville company from St. Joseph to California. This material describes the landscape, rigors of travel, encounters with Indians, communities on route, and life in mining camps at Bear Creek, Sacramento, and Weaverville Dry Diggings. Letters to his wife dating from 1865-1869 describe his business in Yazoo City, Mississippi. There are business contracts...
Dates:
1847-1869, 1847-1856, bulk 1847-1856