Collection is open to the public.
Collection must be used in Special Collections & University Archives Reading Room.
Collection contains Three volumes. Volumes one and two are Applegate's daily diary from 1861 and 1862. Volume three is a composite, with a title page: "Ventures and Adventures of a Party of Webfoot Miners on their Way to and in the Poly Region of the Northern Mines." The composite includes copies of letters, extracts from diaries, and ballads.
Alex M. Applegate, son of Charles Applegate, lived near Yoncalla, Oregon. In 1862 he went to the Salmon River mines, Idaho.
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[Identification of item], Alex M. Applegate diary, A 004, Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, Oregon.