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Journal for a trip to Yellowstone National Park written by Richard T. Jones

1882

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States, North and Central America

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A small pocket journal with brown cardboard covers written by Richard T. Jones. The spine is covered in a dark green adhesive fabric. The pocket journal opens from the top. Inside the journal are several written entries detailing a trip to Yellowstone Park with General Philip H. Sheridan. Entries are written in pencil. Written in ink on the front page is “A Trip to the Yellowstone / Park / in Aug 1882 / with Genl P.H. Sheridan.” At the bottom of the front page, written upside down, is an address written in pencil “1553 Mich Ave.” The first entry is found on the second page and begins “Incidents of a Journey to the / National Park with General / Philip Sheridan and nine other / Officers and Gentlemen…” The pages of the journal are lined.

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Catalog reference: 2015.93.61

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