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Title
James Cunningham, who appears in an account of the 1853 Butler Train to Oregon, photograph copied 1939
Contributor
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Date Created and/or Issued
[copied 1939]
1939
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
West (H. H.) Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Half-length portrait photograph of James Cunignham.
George Miller West travelled with the Butler (wagon) Train, (organized by the Butler family, members of the Disciples of Christ Church) from Monmouth, Illinois to Polk County, Oregon in 1853. West made the journey to mine in Oregon and California. He wrote a memoir relating incidents of crossing the plains to Oregon and his experiences in the goldfields of southern Oregon and northern California. The memoir was prepared in the form of a 49-page typescript by his son, H. H. West, who distributed the memoir to several libraries and archives, along with copied photographs of members of the Butler Train and one or two mining associates. The photographs were collected by H. H. West from about 1935 to 1942.
Text from negative sleeve: 203. Butler Train 1853. James M. Cunningham, Original in hands of Mrs. Lizzie Cunnningham, 825 North G street, Monmouth, Ill. 1939
Type

Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_000203_001
ark:/21198/zz002hptsr
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Pioneers--Oregon
Cunningham, James
Source
West (H. H.) Collection

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