Willaim Dane Phelps journal : Ams., 1841-1843.

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Willaim Dane Phelps journal : Ams., 1841-1843.

Record kept, April 15, 1841-May 4, 1843, as captain of the Alert while trading on the California coast and voyaging back around the Horn to Boston. Describes visits to various ports and comments on notable events and personalities. Includes sketches of two birds, "Alert off Cape Horn," and Mission Santa Barabara.

140 p.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7016146

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Santa Barbara Mission

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Mission Santa Barbara is a Spanish mission founded by Padre Fermín Lasuén on December 4, 1786, the feast day of Saint Barbara, as the tenth mission for the religious conversion of the indigenous local Chumash-Barbareño tribe of Native American people. It is located in present-day Santa Barbara....

Phelps, William Dane, 1802-1875

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Alert (Ship, William Dane Phelps, captain).

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