Diary, 1862-1863.

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Diary, 1862-1863.

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Diary of an overland trip from Camp Porcupine (August 18, 1862) to Portland, Oregon (November 10, 1862) with Fisk Expedition; contains good descriptive information and impressions of landscape and trail; also includes return voyage via Panama to the East coast (November 13, 1862-ca. January 1, 1863).

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Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Scott, Charlton.

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Fisk, James Liberty, 1835-1902

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Fisk was born in New York of Irish extraction, the eldest of six sons of John B. and Jerusha T. Fisk. He worked as a "raftsman, farmer, carriage maker, and newspaperman" for the Daily Courier of Lafayette, Indiana. Four of his five brothers also became newspapermen. Becoming engrossed with the western frontier, he moved to White Bear Lake, Minnesota, sometime in the 1850s, married Lydia Burson, and started farming. In 1857, he was in the expedition of William H. Nobles which tried unsuccessfu...