Scope and Contents First and second expeditions. Volumes 1 and 2 are bound together. "... for a preliminary survey and examination of a R.R. route from Grand Junction, Colorado to the Gulf of California and San Diego, by way of the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. ..." This railroad would be called the Denver, Colorado Canon and Pacific Railroad Company. In July, at the end of the first expedition, at the mouth of Paria Creek, Stanton concluded: "From the head of the Colorado to the San Juan a railway...

Scope and Contents Volumes 3 and 4 bound together. They recount the exploration from the head of Grand Canyon in relation to the building of the railroad. The notes in these two volumes are more general than in volumes 1-2, giving discriptions of the walls, the rapids, the temperatures, etc. In all four volumes, Stanton refers to his topographical notebook and records the photographs taken by number. On September 6, 1890, Stanton wrote a letter to Mr. H. B. Chamberlin, president of the Denver Colorado Canon and...

Scope and Contents Albert King Thurber was born 7 April 1826, in Foster, Rhode Island. The early portion of his journal tells of his life as a farm boy and then as a combmaker. Two of the main events recorded in his journal are his trip West en route to the California goldfields in 1849 and his conversion to Mormonism in Salt Lake City in that same year. His conversion postponed his California trek until November when he and a number of others accompanied Amasa Lyman to investigate the goldfields. He married...