Ruggles, Benjamin Franklin – Diary 1859

Rush, John N. – Journal, Crossing the Plains 1864

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  • This journal takes the reader from Iowa to the gold fields of California.
  • 12 Pages

Sanders, Joseph B. – Diary 1865

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  • 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

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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

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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

Scharmann, Hermann B. – Overland Journey to California

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Scharmann’s Overland Journey to California. pp 9-27

 

Scheller, J. J. – 1849, Louisiana to California

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Four typed pages

Partial entries from autobiography, 21 December 1848 to 7 July, 1849

Schneider, Charles G. – 1852, Wisconsin to California

Scholl, Septimus and Nelson Scholl and Eliza Wallace – Letters, 1849-1850 from Jackson County, Missouri

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14 typed pages

Letters to family in Nicholas County, Kentucky

Scofield, Joseph S. – Diary

Scofield, Joseph S. – Diary

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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

Scott, Hamilton – Diary, 1862, Iowa to Walla Walla, Washington Territory

Scott, John A. to Wilson Scott – June 22, 1849

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  • 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.
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