Letter from Samuel A. Snowden to Samuel D. Snowden. Describes attempts to find ship passage to Pacific coast of North America. Relates details of visit to Mr. Warnack, whose brother went to Oregon some years before.
The 1852 overland journal which Duniway kept as her family crossed the plains to Oregon. Abigail's journal was the basis of her 1859 novel, Captain Gray's Company, which was the first commercially printed novel in Oregon.