Nicholas Dawson papers, [ca. 1839-1901].

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Nicholas Dawson papers, [ca. 1839-1901].

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Notebook kept on journey to California in the Bartleson party, 1841, with observations also of California in 1842; diary of second journey in 1849; manuscript and printer's copy of reminiscences, California in 1841, Texas in 1851, published in 1901, with descriptions of journeys to California and Texas; correspondence including letters from Mr. and Mrs. John Bidwell. Included also: Biography of Nicholas Dawson by his daughter, Nancy E. Dawson; Dawson family genealogy; some papers of his father, George Dawson.

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Dawson, Nicholas, 1819-1903

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Dawson family.

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Bidwell, Annie E. Kennedy

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Annie Ellicott Kennedy Bidwell, born in Meadville, PA, June 30, 1839, was the daughter of Joseph Camp Griffith Kennedy of Washington, D.C. She married John Bidwell on April 16, 1868 and came to Rancho Chico, Butte County. She was a philanthropist and civic leader, especially interested in the Indians, church affairs, temperance movements, and women suffrage. She died in Chico on March 9, 1918. From the description of Annie Ellicott Kennedy Bidwell Collection, 1842-1918. (California S...

Bidwell, John, 1819-1900

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Bidwell was a noted early Calif. pioneer, landowner, and statesman. He helped form the Western Immigration Society in 1840, which led to the formation of the Bidwell-Bartleson wagon train, the first emigrant train to Calif. He travelled through Utah in 1841, then forged the Calif. immigrant trail. In 1846 he wrote the Bear Flag platform. In 1848, he began buying his ranch, Rancho de Arroyo Chico, also known as Rancho Chico. From the description of Rancho de Arroyo Chico ledger and re...