Martha Roe diary, 1864 May 4-Sept. 8.

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Martha Roe diary, 1864 May 4-Sept. 8.

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The diary traces Roe's journey from Grinnell, Iowa, on 4 May to Council Bluffs and the Platte River road. Roe arrived at Fort Laramie on 2 July, Platte Bridge Station on 12 July, and Independence Rock on 25 July. The train Roe traveled with continued on through South Pass, taking the Lander Cutoff to Snake River and then on to Bannack, Mont. (which she called "Bannock, Idaho Territory") The diary records routine daily activities and sketchy descriptions of fellow travelers. There is some description of encounters with Plains Indians.

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Montana State University (Bozeman, Mont.). Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8061941

Montana State University (Bozeman, Mont.). Library

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Loughridge, Martha A. (Martha Ann), 1843-1920

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Martha Ann Freeman Roe was born in Orange County, Ohio, on 3 July 1843. She moved with her family to Iowa where she attended Grinnell University in the early 1860s. She married Isaac Roe on 16 Apr. 1864, and the couple joined an immigrant train the next month bound for the gold fields of Montana. Isaac became a banker and died in 1873. Martha remarried in 1880 to Thomas Loughridge and had four children, eventually settling in Bozeman, Mont., where she died on 11 May 1920. From the de...

Roe, Isaac, -1873

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