Copyright has not been assigned to The Society of California Pioneers. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Society of California Pioneers as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must be obtained by the reader.
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Copyright has not been assigned to The Society of California Pioneers. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Society of California Pioneers as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must be obtained by the reader Autobiography & Reminiscence of Judge Walter Van Dyke, Los Angeles, 1901. The Society of California Pioneers Soon after Judge Walter Van Dyke's admittance to the Bar in Cleveland he joined a company to head out west in search of gold. They left Cleveland in May of 1849 by steamer for Chicago where they organized an outfit for the journey across the plains. They reached California around the end of 1849 Autobiographies and Reminiscences of California Pioneers, p. 191-203, Vol. 6. This is a typed transcript, bound into a volume, of the member's autobiographical reminiscence created as an institutional record for the Society of California Pioneers. This reminiscence includes a reference to a photograph of the member in a set of bound volumes. It appears that the photographs in this set were dispersed throughout the regular photography collection, but the photographs referenced in the related materials may or may not be these same photographs. The subheading for this reminiscence is, "Overland to Los Angeles, by the Salt Lake Route in 1849". The period of time represented by this biography is from 1849 to 1850. The main topic of this reminiscence is the subject's overland journey across the plains to California. Included are geographic details and dates, as well as the subject's impressions of towns and places traveled through. Mr. Van Dyke makes a point to disprove the common stereotypes of the settlers of the "wild west" and maintains that "the mass of California's pioneers were law-abiding and enterprising people".
Van Dyke, Walter--1823-1905 Pioneers--California--Biography Overland journeys to the Pacific Frontier and pioneer life California--History--19th century San Francisco (Calif.)--History Los Angeles (Calif.)--History
Time Period
California -- History -- 19th century
Place
Pioneers California Biography History 19th century. San Francisco (Calif.) Los Angeles (Calif.)
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