Rose–Baley Party
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The Rose–Baley Party was the first European American emigrant wagon train to traverse the 35th parallel route known as Beale's Wagon Road, established by Edward Fitzgerald Beale, from Zuni Pueblo, New
E.F. Beale
A "prairie schooner" covered wagon, 1909
A classic image of the American cowboy, as portrayed by C.M. Russell
El Morro in 1873
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
Rose–Baley Party
…War, Gillum Baley. Their combined outfits numbered twenty wagons, forty men, fifty to sixty women and children, and nearly five hundred head of cattle. John Udell, a 62-year-old Baptist minister kept a daily journal of the party's travels, recording the locations of their campsites, documenting their progress…
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
Journal of John Udell, Kept During a Trip Across the Plains (1868 cover)