Journal containing personal narratives, poems, and photographs relating to experiences in a mining camp at Valley View, Baker County, Oregon. The material was printed as a monthly newsletter under the title"The Roughnecks' Home Companion" by Nellie B. Parker for her family in Chicago, Illinois.

A biographical sketch of Phila Anna Pence and her life in Oregon and in Payette, Idaho.

Recollections of a journey along the Oregon Trail with an emigrant train to Oregon in 1845. Accompanied by a typed transcription.