Journal of a trip to California, 1860 / by Martha Missouri Bishop Moore, and typescript of the journal, 1934 by Frances Bishop Sweaney.

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Journal of a trip to California, 1860 / by Martha Missouri Bishop Moore, and typescript of the journal, 1934 by Frances Bishop Sweaney.

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Moore's original journal (53 p.) describes a wagon trip from Benton County, Missouri to California in 1860. Diary entries note the weather and the trail conditions along the Platte River and on the Lander Route. Moore writes of conflicts with Sioux Indians. There is a cyanotype in the journal identified on the back as a photograph of an adobe house on Moore's grandfather's land. The typed transcript (48 p.) was made by Frances Bishop Sweaney in 1934. To the original text she added reproductions of photographs of Martha Missouri Bishop Moore and her husband James Preston Moore, an appendix of notes clarifying or expanding on parts of the diary, two appendices locating the trail they followed, and a bibliography.

2 vols.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Moore, Martha Missouri Bishop, 1837-1858.

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Martha Missouri Bishop Moore, daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Frances Brown Bishop, was born in Benton County, Missouri and died in Red Bluff, California. She married James Preston Moore in 1858 and two years later traveled overland with her husband and members of her family to California where they settled. Frances Bishop Sweaney, Martha's niece, transcribed Martha's journal and tried in the 1930s to retrace by car her aunt's 1860 wagon trip. From the descr...