Memoir of Louis Zindel, c. 1959.

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Memoir of Louis Zindel, c. 1959.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122570970

This short memoir, which was written by Zindel's granddaughter Charlotte R. Brackelsberg, talks about Zindel's youth in Prussia, his meeting with John Charles Frémont in St. Louis in 1842, and their expedition to California. Brackelsberg also talks about Kit Carson and the group's howitzer cannon.

2 pages, typewritten, 28 cm.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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