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Bibliographic Record Display

• Author/Creator:
  Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889.
  
• Title:
  Diaries, journals, and notebooks, 1849-1850.
  
• Physical Description:
  16 v. (in 1 case) : illus.; 22 cm. or smaller.
  
• Links:
  View a selection of digital images in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database
  

• Yale Holdings

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  Location:
  BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
  Request for use in the Beinecke Reading Room
  
  
  Call Number:
  WA MSS 50
  
  Status:
  Not Checked Out
  
  
  
   
• Notes:
  Associated material: Goldsborough journals and account, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California.
  The diaries and notebooks belonged to Mrs. W. J. Procter of Washington, D.C., Capt. Bruff's granddaughter. Given to the library by William Robertson Coe.
  
• Biographical / Historical note:
  Bruff was a draftsman in the Bureau of Topographical Engineers. He organized and led an 1849 expedition by Washington City and California Mining Association.
  
• Summary:
  The diaries describe an 1849 expedition by way of St. Joseph, Fort Kearney, Fort Laramie, South Pass, Sublette's Cut-off, Bear River, Cantonment Loring, Raft River, the Humboldt, Lassen's Route to Deer Creek, and Bruff's camp. They contain maps and sketches from the journey and notes on life in California. The journals were written from the diaries. The notebooks contain more sketches from the trip and of equipment. There are memoranda of supplies and equipment, routes, and remedies.
  
• Publications:
  Read, George Willis, and Ruth Gaines, eds. Gold Rush. The Journals, Drawings, and other Papers of J. Goldsborough Bruff... New York: Columbia University Press, 1944.
  
• Format:
  Archives or Manuscripts
• References:
  Withington, M. C. Catalogue of Western Americana Manuscripts 50.
  
• Cite as:
  Joseph Goldsborough Bruff Diaries, Journals, and Notebooks. Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
  
• Subjects:
  Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889.
  Washington City and California Mining Association.
  Overland journeys to the Pacific.
  California--Description and travel.
  West (U.S.)--Description and travel.
  West (U.S.)--Maps.
  West (U.S.)--Pictorial works.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):
  Overland journeys to the Pacific--1849.
  
• Genre/Form:
  Diaries--United States.
  Viewbooks--United States.