Title: The Oregon Trail diary of James Akin, Jr. in 1852
Description: There were two families Richey, as well as an Akin and an Ingram, who had been neighbors and friends for years. The families intermarried. A fourth family appears when Alice Booth married a Richey in 1843 in Henry Co., Iowa. In 1852 the families decided to move to Oregon in wagons on the emigrant trail. This is a diary recorded by 19-year- old James Akin, Jr., the eldest of the children.
Subjects: Description and travel, Diaries, History, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Pioneers
Places: Oregon National Historic Trail, West (U.S.)
People: Aiken family, Ingram family, James Akin, Ritchie family
Time periods: 1848-1860