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Condition: Brand New
Seller's Comments: Brand new stock, direct from publisher. Trade paperback.
Full Description:
The family of John and Mary (COPP) McCULLY made four overland trips from Henry County, Iowa, to the West Coast between 1849 and 1853. In 1849, David and Asa McCully joined a group from DesMoines and Henry counties bound for the California gold fields.According to family tradition, they did rather well there [perhaps making as much money selling supplies to the other gold miners,as they did from the results of their mining], and were back home in Iowa by February 1850 (having made the return trip via theIsthmus of Panama). In 1851, John Wilmer McCully (a younger brother of David and Asa) and his wife Jane (Mason) joined a wagon train bound for Oregon. In 1852 the rest of the family, except for sister Mary Jane and her new husband John D. Love, set off along theOregon Trail, in company with other relatives and friends. Having arrived in Oregon's Willamette Valley in August 1852 and quickly seeing the desirability of establishing a mercantile store in the new community of Harrisburg, Asa McCully almost immediately set sail for Panama, then on across the Gulf of Mexico to the East. Where he went first is unclear [some family records say Philadelphia, some say New York, and some say Wheeling, West Virginia],but somewhere he arranged for a load of goods to be shipped around the Horn to Oregon. He returned to Henry County, Iowa, gathered up his sister and her husband, a large herd of cattle, some cattle herders and a few families intent on heading overland, and by April 1853 was once again on his way west to Oregon.
Although the McCullys themselves seem not to have kept journals (at least, none appear to have survived), the 1852 Oregon Trail trip is well documented. A previously unpublished first-hand account has been found, prepared by John S. McKiernan,one of the McCully "hired hands". Also found was a second-hand account of the trip that was prepared by someone who probably had interviewed Asa or David McCully, and who seems to have had access to some original documents (that apparently have not survived over time). Finally, a number of reminiscences from wagon train participants have been found, prepared during their later lives in Oregon. Together, these documents present a rather complete view of one particular wagon train traveling the Oregon Trail at the height of the overland movement.
In the pages of "The McCully Train" you'll find:
-An overview of the 1852 McCully trip, compiled from the various records available;
-A complete journal of the trip, prepared on the spot by John S. McKiernan;
-A second-hand account of the trip, published in 1914 by Wesley W. Briggs;
-Reminiscences of David McCully, Susan (Yeomans) Angell, Estelle (McCully) Gilbert, and Delilah F. (McCully) Hendershott, all members of the 1852 train;
-Biographical and genealogical information on all known participants of the 1852 overland journey;
-Cross-references between the various accounts, and liberal footnotes to add to and clarify the accounts;
-A full bibliography including all references cited in the text; and
-Every-name indexes to people and places mentioned in the text, including cross-references to maiden names of women. |
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