Journal of a Trip Across the Continent: volume I

A journal recording Sarah Shurtleff's travels across the USA and her reactions to and thoughts about the people she met and the places she visited. The volume is illustrated with pictures she collected and with photographs, many of which were taken by her husband, Asahel Shurtleff. The volume includes a contents list and an index.

This series of journals are copies of the pencilled diaries that she wrote at the time of her trip (see ref. A170 box 12 198v-200v). Also included is the 'Order of our Journeying', setting out the route they took from and to Boston. There is also a map of the journey they took, a list of 'The different states we passed through' and 'Places where we stopped'. She also visits the Carnegie Library and writes about the Pueblo people.