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Robert Lindsey journal

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-042
 

Robert Lindsey journal

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-042

This collection is composed of the handwritten journal pages of Robert Lindsey's trip to visit Friends in Iowa. Entries describe the journey, including descriptions of the weather, travel by horse and wagon over the prairies, the dangerous crossing of the frozen Mississippi River, the history of the Quakers in Iowa, Quaker Meetings attended, and Lindsey's various travels throughout Iowa to visit various Iowa Quaker families.

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research use.

Dates
Creation: 1850
Extent
0.0080 linear ft. (1 volume)
Related Names
Lindsey, Robert
Language of Materials
English

Journal, 1850

 Item — Box: 5
Dates
Creation: 1850
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