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Author Loomis, Leander Vaness, 1827-1909.

Title A journal of the Birmingham emigrating company; the record of a trip from Birmingham, Iowa, to Sacramento, California, in 1850, by Leander V. Loomis: together with five early itineraries covered in part by this company. With supplementary data compiled from historical source and notes and photographs taken along the line of travel: edited by Edgar M. Ledyard.

Imprint Salt Lake City, Utah [Legal printing company] 1928.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection  917.8 L873    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 198 p. plates, ports., fold. map. 24 cm.
Note Running title: Birmingham journal.
"Edition limited to 1,000 copies of which 300 are autographed."
"The Latter-day saints' emigrants' guide ... by W. Clayton. St. Louis, Mo., Republican steam power press, Chambers & Knapp, 1848": p. [137]- 176.
The itinerary from Salt Lake City to Sacramento and Benicia as described in Marcy's Prairie traveller, edited by Richard F. Burton and published in London in 1863: p. 177-182.
Subject Birmingham Emigrating Company.
Overland journeys to the Pacific.
West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.
West (U.S.) -- Guidebooks
West (U.S.) -- Distances, etc.
Added Author Clayton, William, 1814-1879. Latter-day saints' emigrants' guide.
Marcy, Randolph Barnes, 1812-1887. Prairie traveller.
Ledyard, Edgar Madison, 1875-
Added Title Birmingham journal.

 
    
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