A journal of the Birmingham emigrating company ; the record of a trip from Birmingham, Iowa, to Sacramento, California, in 1850 / by Leander V. Loomis: together with five early itineraries covered in part by this company. With supplementary data compiled from historical source and notes and photographs taken along the line of travel: edited by Edgar M. Ledyard.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Loomis, Leander Vaness, 1827-1909
Other Authors: Clayton, William, 1814-1879
Marcy, Randolph B. (Randolph Barnes), 1812-1887
Ledyard, Edgar M. (Edgar Madison), 1875-
Language:English
Published: Salt Lake City, Utah : [Legal printing company], 1928.
Subjects:
Birmingham Emigrating Company.
Overland journeys to the Pacific.
West (U.S.) > Description and travel.
West (U.S.) > Guidebooks.
West (U.S.) > Distances, etc.
Genre:
Guidebooks.
Physical Description:7 pages 1., 198 pages : plates, portraits, folded map ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Description
Note:Running title: Birmingham journal.
"Edition limited to 1,000 copies of which 300 are autographed."
"The Latter-day saints' emigrants' guide...by W. Clayton. St. Louis, Mo., Republican steam power press, Chambers & Knapp, 1848": pages [137]-176.
The itinerary from Salt Lake City to Sacramento and Benicia as described in Marcy's Prairie traveller, edited by Richard F. Burton and published in London in 1863: pages 177-182.
Call Number:F593 .L87 1928