Journal of sergeant Nathaniel V. Jones of the Mormon Battalion of his journey from Leavenworth, Kansas to San Diego, California, via Santa Fe, in 1846, and his return to Leavenworth, Kansas in spring of 1848.

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Journal of sergeant Nathaniel V. Jones of the Mormon Battalion of his journey from Leavenworth, Kansas to San Diego, California, via Santa Fe, in 1846, and his return to Leavenworth, Kansas in spring of 1848.

Thirty page typescript of journal. Includes correspondence between daughter Mary J. Clawson, B.F. Riter, and J. Cecil Alter, concerning the journal.

46 pp. : type carbon.

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