- 20 Pages
Ruggles, Benjamin Franklin – Diary 1859
Rush, John N. – Journal, Crossing the Plains 1864
- This journal takes the reader from Iowa to the gold fields of California.
- 12 Pages
Sanders, Joseph B. – Diary 1865
- Joseph Sanders’ travels from Illinois to Walla Walla, WA and points beyond.
- Sanders discusses his bout of typhoid on page 26.
- 26 Pages
Savage, Charles Roscoe
Printed pages
Biographical information for Charles Roscoe Savage, a British-born 19th century portrait and landscape photographer
Printed pages from a book “The Philadelphia Photographer” edited by Edward L Wilson, vol. IV, Philadelphia: Benerman and Wilson, 1867, pp 287-289, 313-316
Sawyer, Lorenzo – 1850 Missouri to California
Printed pages from a book
Sawyer, Lorenzo. Way Sketches Containing Incidents of Travel Across the Plains from St. Joseph to California in 1850. New York: Edward Eberstadt, 1926
Diary entries dated 6 May 1850 to 8 June 1850
Scarbrough [Scarborough], Richard Abraham – Diary, 1852, Indiana to California
45 typed pages
Scharmann, Hermann B. – Overland Journey to California
Printed pages from a book
Scharmann’s Overland Journey to California. pp 9-27
Scheller, J. J. – 1849, Louisiana to California
Four typed pages
Partial entries from autobiography, 21 December 1848 to 7 July, 1849
Schneider, Charles G. – 1852, Wisconsin to California
13 typed pages
Scholl, Septimus and Nelson Scholl and Eliza Wallace – Letters, 1849-1850 from Jackson County, Missouri
14 typed pages
Letters to family in Nicholas County, Kentucky
Scofield, Joseph S. – Diary
- 9 Pages
Scofield, Joseph S. – Diary
Nine typed pages
Partial diary entries from Nauvoo, Illinois to Fort Laramie area
Scott, H.T. – Memorandum of the Trip to California Across the Plains in 1852
- 13 Pages
Scott, Hamilton – Diary, 1862, Iowa to Walla Walla, Washington Territory
22 typed pages
Scott, John A. to Wilson Scott – June 22, 1849
- This file contains a handwritten letter from John A. Scott to Wilson Scott that was recovered from the wreck of the steamer Algoma, burned at a wharf St. Louis on July 1849.
- 5 Pages