California -- Gold discoveries -- Sources
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Kendall-Reed
Abstract
Correspondence, writings, documents of Nathan Kendall and wife Abby J. Reed Kendall of Massachusetts, Indiana and Illinois, including many letters to each other before and after marriage in 1857, as well as numerous letters to and from members of their families, friends and former students. Some correspondence and documents concern travel to California begun in 1849.
Dates:
1842-1912
Thomas Jefferson Oxley letters
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-folio-Graff-3151
Abstract
Thomas J. Oxley, after 1855, became heavily involved in California politics. He was a Whig and later a Know-nothing leader and a member of the state legislature. In 1857, he joined Henry A. Crabb in the ill-fated filibustering expedition into Sonora as surgeon-general. He was among those who lost their lives before the Mexican firing squads at Caborca. Oxley's letters to his family describe his overland journey to California, his difficulties and delights of living in California and the...
Dates:
1850-1853