North Platte River
Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Scope Note: The Thesaurus of Geographic Names\World\continents\North and Central America\nations\United States\rivers\
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
A Map of the Indian Territory, Northern Texas, and New Mexico Showing the Great Western Prairies, 1842 or 1844
Item — Drawer MC-7, Folder: Map 148
Identifier: 3926.802
Description
Josiah Gregg was the trader and writer.From catalog info:Indian Territory/Western United StatesJosiah Gregg (1806-1850)Scale: 1:3,500,000Atlas plate #29 from Sidney E. Morese & Samuel Breese Cerographic Atlas of the United States, 1842, 32 maps. This map also appears in Josiah Gregg's book, Comerese of the Prairies, 1850, facing p.58.Phillips Atlases, vol.1, p.773 (entry #1383).Phillips Maps p.332. ...
Dates:
1842 or 1844
Manuscript Collection: John Lowery Brown
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.26
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Journal of John Lowery Brown (1779-1852), a Cherokee. He and a party of fellow tribesmen left Grand Saline (near Salina, Oklahoma) on April 20, 1850, for the gold fields of California. After suffering many hardships, the party arrived late in September. The last entry is November 10, 1850. This journal is in English. A transcript with notes is printed in Vol. XII of the Chronicles of Oklahoma (Oklahoma Historical Society,...
Dates:
1850
Typed transcription of the original handwritten letter from Thomas Moran to his wife, Mary Nimmo, written while on the Arkansas River, August 24, 1874
Item — Folder 91: [Barcode: 150.91]
Identifier: 3836.795
Description
Curatorial Remarks
Folder 91
Curatorial Remarks
The letter is published in Bassford, Amy O., ed. with introduction and notes by Fritiof M. Fryxell. Home-thoughts, from afar: Letters of Thomas Moran to Mary Nimmo Moran. East Hampton, NY: East Hampton Library, 1967, pgs. 52-57.
Sandra Pauly, Luce Curatorial Scholar of American Art, 2022
Dates:
August 24, 1874