Henry Martyn Pomeroy Collection
Collection
Identifier: WHC-M-1855
Scope and Contents
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Bookseller. A photocopy and typescript of a portion of the diary (1959-1960) kept by Henry M. Pomeroy during his overland journey to California, with descriptions of gold fields and of the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco, the minutes of a vigilante committee near Omaha, Nebraska, and an account of a massacre in Oregon Territory.
Dates
- 1859-1860
Restrictions on Access
Available for public access.
Extent
.15 ft. (.15 ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Ownership and Custodial History
Gift of Harriet Roab Hill Kelley.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Papers: Source of acquisition--Kelley, Harriet Roab Hill. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1976.
- Arizona -- Description and travel Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- California -- Description and travel -- 1848-1869 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Diaries Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Frontier and pioneer life Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Description and travel Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Massacres -- Oregon Territory Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Minutes Subject Source: Ftamc
- Murder -- Oregon Territory Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Nebraska -- History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- New Mexico -- Description and travel Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Oregon -- Description and travel Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Overland journeys to the Pacific Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Pioneers Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Pomeroy, Henry Martyn, 1830-1916
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Description and travel Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Texas -- Description and travel Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Vigilantism -- Nebraska. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Western History Collections Repository
Contact:
630 Parrington Oval
Room 300
Norman Oklahoma 73019 United States
westernhistorycollections@ou.edu
630 Parrington Oval
Room 300
Norman Oklahoma 73019 United States
westernhistorycollections@ou.edu
