Three typed pages
Letter addressed to Smith Tuttle, Elmira, Stark County, Illinois
Tuttle, Ziba Smith – Letter, 23 April 1850, at Kanesville/Council Bluffs, Iowa
Udall, John – 1850, Iowa to California
Two typed pages, “Incidents of Travel”
Merrill Mattes research notes
Van Schaick, Holmes D. – Diary, 1852, New York to California
29 typed pages
Vanbuskirk, Andrew – 1852, Ohio to Oregon
Six typed pages
Vanbuskirk, William and Mary – 1852, Ohio to Oregon
Six typed pages
This is an account of William and Mary Vanbuskirk and their sons and daughters and families, 23 people in the company. Diary is that of son Andrew Vanbuskirk.
Variel, Joshua Hutchins – Journal, 1852, Indiana to California
41 typed pages
Variel, Mary Alexander Ada – 1852, Indiana to California
Series of printed articles “A Romance of the Plains” by William J. Variel, from notes given by his pioneer mother Mary Alexander Variel
Various Diary Entries from 1852-1859
- Pages 1-4 contain various pieces of diary
- Pages 6-8 contain maps
- 8 Pages
Varner, Allen – Letter, 1849, Independence, Missouri
79 pages, typed transcript of handwritten letter
Letter written on 29 April,1849 by Allen Varner in Independence, Missouri, to his brother Elias Varner and his sisters in Indianapolis, Indiana
Later handwritten letters are included.
Violette, M. A. – Diary, 1849, Missouri to California
23 typed pages
Vodges, Ada – Journal, 1868-1870
174 typed pages
Travel from Fort Sedgwick, Colorado to Fort Laramie, Wyoming
Life at Fort Laramie
Wechselberg, Peter – Letters, 1850, Iowa to California
36 typed pages
Letters are in German and translated into English
Wheelock Stocker, Eleazer 1864
- Page 1 states that E.W. Stocker traveled from Benton Co., Iowa to Montana and Idaho. Stocker kept a diary during his trip, of which the family has the original.
- Page 6 contains record of supplies and costs. The notation at the bottom states that it is assumed that James Waton accompanied Stocker, and the figures indicate there may have been a third person traveling with them.
- 6 Pages