FYI gf ****** My interest in researching the 1851 Oregon Trail migration began several years ago when I attempted to see if my wife's 1851 O.T. ancestors, JOSHUA PETTINGILL BLANCHARD and his bride REBECCA JANE [RACE], had kept a journal or maybe were mentioned in a fellow traveler's account of the crossing. This led to the thought of sharing the wealth of documents and information I have accumulated with others who might be looking for similar documents . It seemed logical to my purpose to create a list of 1851 O.T. names, with documentation, and some sort of index of the journals and recollections I was able to find. These I obtained from published sources as well as from private family papers via email contacts. I started researching just the Oregon Trail pioneers to Oregon, but expanded my "Master List of 1851 O.T. Pioneers" to those who turned off to CA (and are so identified) and to those who went to Salt Lake City for the winter and then returned to the Trail to Oregon (and are so identified). I decided to include those Mormons whose journals I happened upon (as these Mormons often interacted with the Oregon bound folks part of the way along the Oregon Trail). But I did not exhaust the Mormon documents, as that is a major project unto itself. I am not including any of the Santa Fe Trail folks, however....again, another project for others to pursue. My "Index of 1851 O.T. Journals/Recollections" project involves gathering all of the known 1851 journals/recollections and listing 1.) the dates landmarks were reached, 2.) unusual incidents recorded along the way, and 3.) the names of other travelers mentioned. Comparing journal entries, one can then partially reconstruct the groups which traveled together at least part of the way along the journey. And sometimes all that remains of an ancestor's O.T. trek is an anecdote of a trail incident or the name of a fellow traveler which passed down through the generations. Hopefully, people searching for some tidbits about an ancestor's journey(barring the discovery of an actual document composed by that ancestor) will be able to find , through this Index (which also cites the repository) an account kept by a pioneer who made the trek across the continent with that pioneer ancestor. I am anxious to add as many names and journal/recollections as I can find. I am documenting the source and/or citing the names of the contributor of each name I include. Some are from published works, but many have been sent via email from descendants of those 1851 pioneers. I have already identified over 2,000 names & have gathered 65 journals and recollections related to the O.T. 1851 migration west. If you know of the whereabouts of 1851 Oregon Trail Pioneer names and/ or any journals they kept or recollections they wrote later, I will be happy to add them to my project. But time is running out. Since I have been working on this for several years, I have decided to end the "hunting gathering" phase of this project in December. Then comes the monumental task of preparing the results so as to be presented in a simple form for other searchers and researchers to find useful to access. That's the story. Now, I will attach a list of the 1851 O.T. journals/recollections which I have not copies of yet, hoping that some may be in a repository close to you . I do know that one is in your state (see below); there may be other there, as well. *********************** KEY: RRN= "Platte River Road Narratives" by Merrill J.Mattes,U of IL Press,1988 CWW= Covered Wagon Women,vol.3,ed. Kenneth Holmes, Glendale, CA, 1984;et al.) OHS ms= Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR, manuscript UOR= U of OR Library Special Collections "Accounts of Journeys to the Pacific Northwest" TW ="Trail West" by John M.Townley Jamison Station Press,Reno,NV,1988 OSL= Oregon State Library, Salem, OR NFTC= National Frontier Trails Center, 318 West Pacific, Independence,MO 64050 UWA= U of WASHINGTON WDWJ= "Women's Diaries of the Western Journey" by Lillian Schlissel,1992 Rev.WYLLIS ALDEN (PRRN #1032; Denver Public Lib, Genealogy Dept; "Ancestors and Descendants") ANONYMOUS (PRRN #1030;NE State Historical Soc.,Lincoln;MO Hist.Soc.St.Louis) JAMES MARVEILLE ARRINGTON(PRRN #1034;Holt-Atherton Ctr.for West.Stud. U.of the Pacific Stockton,CA;TW) CHARLES ATMORE (PRRN #1035; CO Historical Soc, Denver) DANIEL BACON (PRRN #1036;NE State Historical Soc, Lincoln) T.M. BARBER (PRRN #1037; NE State Historical Soc, Lincoln) HARRIET FRANCES BEHRINS -WDWJ - (Diary in "Let Them Speak for Themselves, Women in the American West"by C. Fischer; Hamden, CT: Shoe String Press,1977 SAMUEL R. BLACK (4 lETTERS 1851-53; OHS mss) WILLIAM BOOTH;(TW-Diary in "Early Utah Pioneers,Levi Hammon & Polly Chapman Bybee" by B. Greenwell) CHARLES A. BRANDT (TW "To Oregon With Ox Teams" pub. in Nebraska City) JAMES EDGAR BOWEN (PRRN #1039; Bancroft Lib, U of CA, Berkley) ORLANDO BROWN (TW) J.B.V. BUTLER (UOR #AX521 "Overland Guide") CHARLES NEGUS CARROLL (PRRN #1044; Princeton U. Lib,Princeton, NJ) ____CARWELL(Bancroft Lib.U of CA, Berkeley mss #2-11"Emigrant Co.") Col.A.B.CHAMBERS (PRRN #1045; NE State Hist. Soc,Lincoln; MO Hist.Soc,St.Louis) WILLOUGHBY CHURCHILL (TW "Memories" ed. by Stewart Agnew ) LOUISE KNAPPE SMITH CLAPPE(WDWJ;"Letters of Dame Shirley"ed.C.I.Wheat San Fran.:Grabbhorn Press, 1933) HARRIET ALVAH CLARK (TW has Alvah in 1851 & 1852; diary in "Across the Plains and Beyond", ed R.Conard) E. CRANSTON (TW "Letters"; OR State Library) SARAH M. CRANSTONE (TW "An Ohio Lady"; Diary at OHS?) GEORGE CROOKS (PRRN #1054; CA State Lib, Sacramneto; Bancroft Lib.U of CA Berkeley; Mormon) FREDERICK GARDNER (PRRN #1059; Marriott Lib, U of UT OLIVER JENNINGS (TW - journal) RUSSELL HAINES (PRRN #1062; In Historical Soc., Indianapolis) THEADORE HAWKINS ("History of the Hawkins Family", NV HistSoc;Mormon) SAMUEL HEALD (PRRN #1063; Society of CA Pioneers, San Francisco) JOHN EWING HOWELLS ? (OHS ms #659) Arrived in 1845 and 1851? ORSON HYDE (PRRN #1066;Historical Dept Church of LDS, Salt Lake City) OLIVER JENNINGS (TW - Journal; Beinecke Lib. Yale U, New Haven,CT; I have excerpts from desc.) ANN W.JOHNSON ("The Long Journey of a Mormon Girl" ed.Mike King; "Frontier Times" Aug-Sept 1975; Mormon) JOHN NEWTON LEWIS(Unknown repository) WILLIAM LOVENSTINE (Mentioned in Mattes' GPRR as journalist, no repository cited) BIDDY MASON (Slave w/3 children; narrative in Delilah L. Beasley, "The Negro Trail Blazers of CA",New York Negro University Press,1919,reprint 1969,ppg 109-110. WDWJ) HEINRICH MOLLAUSEN (Mentioned in Mattes' GPRR as journalist, no repository cited) JOHN D. McALLISTER (PRRN #1072; Historical Dept. Church of LDS, SLC; Brigham Young U) THOMAS M. PATTON (TW; OSL; I have 3 brief biog. sketches but no journal/recollection) KATE P. POWELL (TW- "Our Covered Wagons") PUTNAM, ROZELLW APPLEGATE (Unknown repository) ROELFSON/JOHNSON PAPERS (OHS ms #1186) H.R. SCHUTT? (TW-Journal at Central MI U, Mt Pleasant; On Trail in 1850-51?) N. SIMONS (PRRN #1080; MO Historical Soc.,St Louis) _____ ST GEORGE ? (OHS ms #1508; On Trail in 1845? ALLEN JOSEPH STOUT (PRRN #1082;Hist. Dept,Church of LDS,SLC) OSIAN H. TAYLOR (Diary in Special Collections,U of MT at Missoula) JEREMIAH B. THOMSON (TW - Early Days in Oregon; UOR) PETER TICE/TYCE (TW - Diary; Brigham Young University, UT; maybe 1950-51) ELIZABETH M. WILSON (TW - Papers; U of the Pacific Lib, Rare Book Room, Stockton, CA) ************************************* Thank you for whatever help you can be to my research project. Albert Belanger skipb@nh.ultranet.com 128 Middle Road Brentwood, NH 03833 Researching the 1851 Oregon Trail Migration