John Udell
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John Udell was an American farmer and Baptist lay preacher who is primarily known for two detailed diaries he kept of his travels to California across the Great Plains of the United States. He travers
Udell's portrait from his 1856 diary, Incidents of Travel to California Across the Great Plains
19th-century depiction of Ashtabula County, Ohio where John and Emily Udell spent much of their married life
Inscription Rock in New Mexico where Udell carved his name on 8 July 1858 during his fourth overland journey from Missouri to California
Journal of John Udell, Kept During a Trip Across the Plains (1868 cover)
Gillum Baley
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Gillum Baley was an American pioneer and judge. With Leonard Rose he led the ill-fated Rose–Baley Party, the first emigrant wagon train to attempt the journey from New Mexico to California via Beale's
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…In July the party camped near Inscription Rock (now El Morro National Monument) in New Mexico. Several members of the party, including Leonard Rose, Gillum Baley, and Udell, carved their names into the stone. Their inscriptions can still be seen today. On 30 August, as the emigrants were preparing to cross the…
Baley circa 1885
19th-century depiction of wagon trains entering Santa Fe, New Mexico
Ruins of Fort Miller, California in 1936. Gillum Baley and his family lived in the fort's disused buildings from 1860 to 1861