Journal : across the plains in 1859, 1859 Mar. 8 - Aug. 23.

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Journal : across the plains in 1859, 1859 Mar. 8 - Aug. 23.

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Diary written by J.A. Wilkinson between Mar. 8 and Aug. 23, 1859 relating his experiences with an emigrant party of twelve men on the overland trail to California.

1 v. (122 p.) ; 17 cm.

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

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Wilkinson, J. A., fl. 1859.

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