Letter to John Butler from Peter Butler (unsigned)

Title: Letter to John Butler from Peter Butler (unsigned)
Description: In this letter, Peter Butler describes to his son John Butler the general health of family, the birth of a son to Thomas Hutchinson and Elizabeth Hutchinson ("Lissie"), friends loss in a different wagon party, and the conditions of his party on the Oregon Trail including the drowning of a mare and mule, the loss of a wagon, and the favorable conditions in the new country.
Identifier: butlertranscripts/11
Date: 30 October 1853
Creator: Peter Butler
Type: Text
Spatial Coverage: Monmouth, Warren County, Illinois; Polk County, Oregon Territory
Source: Butler Family Letters, MSS 2; Western Oregon University Archives
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Subject: Peter Butler