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Oregon Trail.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Ada B. Philips reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0532
Summary

Story of the overland journey of the Philips family from Kansas to Washington in 1883.

Dates: [19--?]

Boise Public Schools study guide, The Oregon Trail

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1465
Summary

Collection consists of a 35 page study guide about the Oregon Trail for grade five students. Prepared for Boise Public Schools.

Dates: [undated]

Bonneville Point re-dedication program

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/1410
Summary

Collection consists of a program (4 copies), text of remarks prepared by State Historian Larry Jones (3 leaves), and list of slides taken by Larry Jones at the rededication of Bonneville Point, east of Boise, Idaho, on 24 May 2000.

Dates: 2000.

Edward Evans Parrish journal

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0226
Summary

A record of an Oregon Trail journey from Morgan County, Ohio to Jefferson County, Oregon (1843‐1844), rewritten & edited by author in 1867. Entries on Idaho begin on October 1, 1844. Includes original and photocopy.

Dates: 1843 - 1867

Ezra Meeker Centennial collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0774
Dates: 1641 - 2006

Ezra Meeker speech

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0197
Summary

Speech delivered by Meeker on the site of Fort Hall, Bannock County, Idaho.

Dates: 1921

Hamilton Scott reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0802
Summary

Typescript of the 1862 journey from Iowa to Oregon, taken from the diary of Scott. Includes an account of the Massacre Rocks Massacre; notes by Alvin Zaring, a traveler in the same wagon trail, and information on Ezra Zaring, his son.

Dates: 1950

James Oliverson diaries

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0847
Summary

Two small notebooks. The first, "A Journal From the River Platt to California Keep by James Oliverson," covers one month of a wagon trip, but gives no year. The second notebook, "Diary of James Oliverson," covers the period 1880-1882. Collection includes the originals, transcripts, and photocopies.

Dates: [1847-1882]

Joseph McClurg Lyon reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0804
Summary

Account of an 1889 journey of the Lyon family from Missouri to Oregon, and back to Idaho.

Dates: [19--?]

Oregon Trail Memorial Association collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0785
Summary

This collection contains information regarding the Wagon Centennial Celebration. It consists of correspondence, meeting minutes, news articles and bills relating to the association and markers erected along the Oregon Trail.

Dates: 1930 - 1941

Transcript of Sarah Hall Pulliam diary

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0414
Summary

Includes autobiographical and genealogical information on Mrs. Pulliam and her family in Kansas and an account of the journey by wagon from there to Washington State in 1889.

Dates: 1889 - 1892

William Armistead Goulder manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0421
Summary

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

Dates: [after 1845].

William J. Proesch diary

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2/0623
Summary

A diary kept by Proesch detailing his trip from Wright County, Minnesota, to Boise, Idaho. Also included are a series of postcards of Emmett, Idaho, and miscellaneous items.

Dates: 1901 - 1910