Correspondence, 1850

File — Box: 4, Folder: 1

Identifier: III

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

18 July 1850 - Platte River, 150 miles below Laramie, Joseph Ellis Johnson to "Dear Tho Distant Friends"
23 July 1850 - 25-30 miles from Fort Laramie, Joseph Ellis Johnson to those at home
26 July 1850 - Camp on Horse Creek, 44 miles west of Laramie, Joseph Ellis Johnson to "My Dearest Friends" (Harriet, Hannah, Mary, and Mother)
30 July-1 August 1850 - Independence Rock, 390 miles east of Salt Lake City, lower ferry of the upper crossing of the Platte, Joseph Ellis Johnson to beloved friends

Dates

1850

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