Some pioneer recollections
Subtitle: being the autobiography of George Lathrop, one of the first to help in the opening of the West, and a statement made by John Sinclair relative to the rescue of the Donner party ; also an extract from a letter written by Geo. McKinstry with reference to the rescue of the Donner party ; together with Personal recollections of pioneer life, by Luke Voorhees
Contributors: Sinclair, John; McKinstry, George; Voorhees, Luke, b. 1838; Voorhees, Luke, b. 1838; Newberry Library
Publisher: G.W. Jacobs & Co.
Published: 1927
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: Description and travel; Frontier and pioneer life; Donner Party; Overland journeys to the Pacific; Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806)
Other titles: Some pioneer recollections of George Lathrop and Luke Voorhees; Memoirs of a pioneer; American West (Marlborough, England)
Notes: Includes facsim. t.p. of original ed. of George Lathrop's recollections, entitled: Memoirs of a pioneer.

"George Lathrop did not finish writing ... [his] narrative ... Luke Voorhees finished it from notes given him by George."--P. 18.

Appendix: The Voorhees family inherits the famous Lewis & Clark manuscripts. New material discovered in Captain Clark's diary: p. 49-75.

Newberry Library, Chicago

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