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Title: Across the Plains to California in 1852
Journal of Mrs. Lodisa Frizzell

Author: Lodisa Frizell

Editor: Victor Hugo Paltsits

Release Date: February 28, 2010 [EBook #31449]

Language: English

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ACROSS THE PLAINS TO CALIFORNIA IN 1852

JOURNAL OF MRS. LODISA FRIZZELL

EDITED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT IN THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
BY VICTOR HUGO PALTSITS
KEEPER OF MANUSCRIPTS

[Illustration: Logo]

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
1915

REPRINTED MAY 1915

FROM THE BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

OF APRIL 1915

[Illustration: _Indians._

FROM A WATER-COLOR BY MRS. FRIZZELL, AUTHOR OF THE ACCOMPANYING
NARRATIVE]

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ACROSS THE PLAINS TO CALIFORNIA IN 1852

FROM THE LITTLE WABASH RIVER IN ILLINOIS TO THE PACIFIC SPRINGS OF
WYOMING

JOURNAL OF MRS. LODISA FRIZZELL

EDITED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT IN THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

BY VICTOR HUGO PALTSITS, KEEPER OF MANUSCRIPTS

EDITOR'S NOTE

This simple narrative journal was written at Canyon Creek in the Sierra
Nevada Mountains of California, in the middle of December, 1852, by Mrs.
Lodisa Frizzell, who, with her husband, Lloyd Frizzell, and their four
sons, set out on April 14th, of that year, from their unnamed home, not
far from Ewington, Effingham County, Illinois, on the upper reaches of
the Little Wabash River, on an overland journey to California. The
journal records her observations and experiences from the Little Wabash,
across Illinois and Missouri, to St. Louis and St. Joseph, and over the
St. Joseph and Oregon Trails to the Pacific Springs, in Fremont County,
Wyoming. Here, at the continental divide and at the halfway point of her
journey, the journal ends, on June 26th, or the seventy-fourth day