Oregon-California Trails Association | Loughary, Mrs. W. A.

Loughary, Mrs. W. A. – Journal, 1864, Iowa to Oregon

Merrill J. Mattes Collection·

31 typed pages

A brief journal of the travels and incidents of an emigrant ox train across the plains and mountains from Burlington, Iowa, on the Mississippi River, to the Willamette Valley on the Columbia and the Pacific Ocean in the year of 1864

The collection was begun in 1991 by the late Merrill J. Mattes, a co-founder of the Oregon-California Trails Association. That original nucleus was a result of a generous donation from Merrill and reflected his many years as an award-winning National Park Service historian and also included works of his own authorship. The collection is housed at the national Frontier Trails Museum in Independence, Missouri. Here, you have access to many of the original trail diaries he collected in digital form.