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Martha Roe Diary, 1864 May 4-1864 September 8

Repository: Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections

Abstract: The Martha Roe Diary traces Roe's journey from Grinnell Iowa on May 4 to Council Bluffs and the Platte River road. Roe arrived at Fort Laramie on July 2, Platte Bridge Station on July 12, and Independence Rock on July 25, 1864. The diary records routine daily activities and sketchy descriptions of fellow travelers. There is some description of encounters with plains Indians.

Ellen Louisa Gordon Fletcher Papers, 1866-1910

Repository: Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections

Abstract: The Ellen Louisa Gordon Fletcher Papers includes positive photocopies of transcriptions of letters and a diary kept by Ellen Gordon Fletcher during her journey to Montana along the Platte River Road and the Bozeman Trail and continue after the Fletcher's arrival in Virginia City, describing their life in Summit and other locations in Madison County, Montana up to 1870. Places mentioned include many points along the Bozeman Trail and the Gallatin Valley, Montana. The collection also includes a copy photograph, circa 1910, of Ellen Fletcher posing with her adult children.

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