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  • EDITOR'S PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION.
  • A TRIP TO CALIFORNIA.10 MILES FROM ST. JOSEPH,April 24, 1850.
  • INDIAN TERRITORY, 8 miles from Fort Kearny,May 12, 1850
  • FORT LARAMIE, June 1, 1850.
  • WEAVERSVILLE, Cal., Sept. 11th, 1850.

    • California. A trip across the plains, in the spring of 1850, being a daily record of incidents of the trip ... and containing valuable information to emigrants ... By James Abbey. New Albany, Ind., Kent & Norman, and J.R. Nunemacher, 1850

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    THE

    MAGAZINE OF HISTORY

    WITH

    NOTES AND QUERIES

    Extra Number--No. 183.

    CALIFORNIA--A TRIP ACROSS THE PLAINS ( 1850 ) .......... James Abbey

    NEW YORK, N. Y.

    REPRINTED

    WILLIAM ABBATT

    1933

    BEING EXTRA NUMBER 183 OF THE MAGAZINE OF HISTORY WITH NOTES AND QUERIES




    This text is based on the following book(s):
    33-9652. Selected from the collections of the Library of Congress. Copyright status not determined.

    James Abbey was a member of a party that left New Albany, Indiana, for California in the spring of 1850. California. A trip across the plains (1850) is reprinted here from a version published in the Magazine of history, 1933. It is based on the diary kept by Abbey during that journey and letters he sent to friends at home as his party made their way from Indiana to St. Louis, where they joined a larger wagon train, and on to California via Fort Laramie, South Pass, Salt Lake, and Carson Pass. The story continues with accounts of his first days as a prospector near Weaverville after the party reached California in August.

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