Priarie Settlement and California as i saw it

First Person account of the Priarie settlement:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/nbhihtml/pshome.html

This link provides letters and photographs of the Uriah W. Oblinger family which help illustrate the story of settlement on the great plains. The Oblinger family letters discuss land, work, neighbours, crops, religious meetings, problems with grasshoppers, financial problems, and the Easter Blizzard of 1873. They also present some personal insight in to the joy and struggle of establishing a home in the Prairie.

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/ps:@field(DOCID+l003) Here is an example of a letter sent from John Verity to Mattie V. Thomas, August 29, 1862.

California as i saw it:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/