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Discovery of Humboldt Bay : a narrative : typescript, ca. 1900?

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Open book Discovery of Humboldt Bay : a narrative : typescript, ca. 1900?

Title Discovery of Humboldt Bay : a narrative : typescript, ca. 1900?

Creator Wood, L.K. (Lewis Keysor), b. 1819

Date 1923

Place California, California--Humboldt Bay, California--Humboldt County

Language English

Subjects Explorers, Frontier and pioneer life, Indians of North America, Voyages and travels

Description First published in the Humboldt times between April 26 and May 31, 1856. Subsequently reprinted in the Maysville eagle (Maysville, Ky.) in June-Aug. 1856; in the Humbolt times (Eureka, Calif.) in Feb. 1863; West Coast signal (Eureka, Calif.) in March 1873; and Humboldt standard (Eureka, Calif.) in Dec. 1901. Also published for the author's friends as a pamphlet (available at the Newberry Library) with setting reprinted from the 1901 Humboldt standard. Cf. Cat. of the Everett D. Graff Coll. of Western Americana, no. 4734.
Contemporary red cloth binding, with brown endpapers; gold-stamped spine title: Discovery of Humboldt Bay. L.K. Wood."
Acquired by the Newberry Library on Sept. 5, 1923.
Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

Summary Typescript of a personal account written in 1872 by L.K. Wood of the 1849 expedition led by Capt. Josiah Gregg which discovered Humboldt Bay on Dec. 20, 1849. Wishing to ascertain whether the large and beautiful bay described by Indians really did exist, a group of eight men, led by Dr. Josiah Gregg, left Rich Bar on the Trinity River on Nov. 5, 1849. After enduring mountainous and dangerous terrain, lack of food, the death of many of their mules, and the constant presence of Indians who were sometimes hostile, the group eventually reached the Pacific Ocean. They explored the coastline north and south of San Francisco, until one of the men, David A. Buck of New York, discovered the bay on Dec. 20, 1849. When a controversy arose regarding the route home, Wood and three other men headed off on their own. Wood was severely wounded by a grizzly bear, but his companions refused to abandon him, and they reached Sonoma on Feb. 17, 1850. Of the remaining four men, three survived, reaching the Sacramento Valley a short time later. Capt. Gregg, however, died of starvation en route.

Extent 22 leaves, bound ; 29 cm

Format Transcripts, Travel literature

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection

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Call Number Ayer MS 1014

BibID 180195

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2679px × 3440px 26.38 MB

Filename 991801958805867_Ayer_MS_1014_00001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11E8W9