Oregon-California Trails Association | Rockwood, Albert Perry

Rockwood, Albert Perry – Compiled and Assembled History

Merrill J. Mattes Collection·

“The death-like grip of winter’s clutching fingers is being loosened slowly on river and prairie by alternating thaws, coupled with heavy wet snow-storms. ~ Unknown Author, Winter Quarters, Neb. Feb. 21, 1847

This file contains a newspaper clipping, A Hundred Years Ago Today, retelling events at Winter Quarters on February 8, 1847.
Page 3 begins a list of emigrants traveling to Zion.
Page 5 shows the number of emigrants and their names, 148 in total.
“Editor’s Note: This is a series of articles about the Latter-day Saints and their westward migration.”
Page 10 begins the Journal of Albert P. Rockwood
43 Pages

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.