London to Salt Lake City in 1866 : The Diary of William Driver
Reeve, Frank Driver
New Mexico Historical Review
January 1942
17
1942
37-63
"Sailed with wife from England, May 1866. Death of son. Traveled by train from New York to frontier via Montreal and Chicago. Left campground at Wyoming, Nebraska, to cross plains, 16 July 1866. Arrived Great Salt Lake City, September 25. Title of article has Driver crossing plains in 1867, but only date appearing in journal is 1866. Editor makes no comment on this fact. Original spelling retained but punctuation modernized. Footnotes. Diary in possession of Mrs. George Steinbach, San Gabriel, California. Introductory material, pp. 3739." [Abstract from Davis Bitton's Guide to Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies, 1977]