The Oregon Trail diary of James Akin, Jr. in 1852

Description:

There were two families Richey, as well as an Akin and an Ingram, who had been neighbors and friends for years. The families intermarried. A fourth family appears when Alice Booth married a Richey in 1843 in Henry Co., Iowa. In 1852 the families decided to move to Oregon in wagons on the emigrant trail. This is a diary recorded by 19-year- old James Akin, Jr., the eldest of the children.

subjects: Description and travel,  Diaries,  History,  Overland journeys to the Pacific,  Pioneers

People: Aiken family,  Ingram family,  James Akin,  Ritchie family

Places: Oregon National Historic Trail,  West (U.S.)

Times: 1848-1860