Diary of Lovina Walker Weeks of her trip across the plains, with notes by her daughter Florence Weeks Blacow, April 21-Aug. 28, 1859.

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Diary of Lovina Walker Weeks of her trip across the plains, with notes by her daughter Florence Weeks Blacow, April 21-Aug. 28, 1859.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27985293

Lovina's diary provides brief daily descriptions of the wagon journey and is supplemented by comments of her daughter, Florence, who was eight at the time of the trip. Also included are genealogical materials about the Blacow and John Meirs Horner families, and a map of the Weeks' trip.

1 v., 61 leaves.

University of Nevada, Reno, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 7251416

University of Nevada, Reno, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center

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Blacow family.

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Weeks, Lovina Walker.

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Lovina Walker Weeks came to California (1859) with her husband Alfred Weeks and their two daughters, Esther (13) and Florence (8). They travelled from Athens, Michigan to Irvington, Calif. in the charge of Lovina Weeks' brother, Jared Tuttle Walker. Jared Walker (b. 1822) had first come to California in 1852. After a brief stint of mining he began farming in Alameda County, returning to Michigan for his sisters, their husbands and a wife for himself in 1858. Walker/Weeks Party trip was easy and ...

Horner, John R.

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