A letter from Milton W. Shaw, a corporal with the 5th Iowa Volunteers, to his friend Alf Giague in Birmingham, Iowa. Shaw was on board the naval transport Von Phul with Grant's troops who, in early 1863, entered the Yazoo Pass and attempted to...
From the Map Collection. A map of the United States including the "Northwest", "Missouri" and "Arkansaw" territories. The coast of present day California is listed as "Unexplored Country." Scale of 200 miles.
From the McLoughlin Brothers Papers. Paste-ups for the jacket or title page of Adventures on the High Trail, Lost! Two Boys Battle with the Elements, and Unexplored! With the Forest Rangers of the Northwest for the Allen Chaffee Books series, from...
