Yellowstone expedition journal and related papers, 1818-1949.

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Yellowstone expedition journal and related papers, 1818-1949.

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The journal, dated 1818-1820, describes the journey up the Missouri of the 1st and 2nd Battlions of the Rifle Regiment and part of the 6th Infantry. The text notes the building of Cantonment Missouri, hunting expeditions, river trips, and life in winter camps. It includes drawings of Cantonment Missouri and Martin's Cantonment, copies of letters from Gale about scurvy at Cantonment Missouri, and an inventory (dated 1830) of hospital bedding at Jefferson Barracks. Accompanied by three notebooks containing holograph transcripts and research notes relating to the expedition by James Taylor Dunn, a typescript transcript, a letter dated August 26, 1949 to Dunn from Wendell H. Stephenson of the Mississippi Valley Historical Review regarding publication of the journal, and an offprint by William J. Reals entitled Scurvy at Fort Atkinson, 1819-1820.

Journal 80 p. : illus. ; 34 cm.0.4 linear ft. (1 box)

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8012286

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Reals, William J.

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Kavanaugh, Thomas W., 1799-1823

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Atkinson, Henry, 1782-1842

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Colonel (brevet brigadier general), United States Army. From the description of Legal document : Plattsburgh, N.Y., 1819 March 13. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26677404 Henry Atkinson was a United States soldier. He commanded an expedition to the mouth of the Yellowstone River in 1819, in which the main force advanced only to Council Bluffs on the Missouri River. In 1824 a second expedition, commanded by Atkinson and Benjamin O'Fal...

Magee, Matthew J., d. 1824.

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United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 6th

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The 6th regiment was stationed at Greenbush, 1812-1813; Sackett's Harbor, 1814; and Champlain (Plattsburgh), 1815. From the description of Records, 1809-1817. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145406736 ...

Stephenson, Wendell Holmes, 1899-1970

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Wendell Holmes Stephenson was a professor of history at Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in Baton Rouge, La. From the description of Wendell Holmes Stephenson papers, 1862-1947 (bulk 1917-1947) (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 236485544 Historian, university professor, and editor at University of Kentucky, Louisiana State University, Tulane University, and University of Oregon. From the description of Papers, 182...

United States. Army. Rifle Regiment, Battalion, 2d.

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United States. Army. Rifle Regiment, Battalion, 1st.

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Morgan, Willoughby, d. 1832.

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Gale, John, 1795?-1830

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John Gale served as surgeon on an expedition to explore the Upper Missouri to the mouth the the Yellowstone River and to establish military posts. The expedition was first headed by Colonel Thomas A. Smith, and later by Colonel Henry Atkinson. From the description of Yellowstone expedition journal and related papers, 1818-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702127522 ...