Harriett Bidwell Shaw started a journal in September 18,1851, when she and her husband, Reverend James Milton Shaw traveled in a wagon train via the Santa Fe Trail to New Mexico. Harriett was the only woman to accompany the wagon train. She documented their daily activities, the weather conditions, hardships on the trail, encounters with Indians, and buffalo hunting. When the Shaws passed through Kansas they stayed at Shawnee Baptist Mission, Council Grove, and Pawnee Rock and stopped near Fort Mackey on the Arkansas river. They reached Santa Fe on November 14, 1851, where the journal ends. The Shaws evenually went to Albuquerque and then Socorro to establish Baptist missions among the Spanish people.
Date: 1851
Creator: Shaw, Harriet Bidwell
Item Number: 209694
Call Number: 2007-13.7.01
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 209694
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Ministers
Community Life - Religion - Christianity - Baptist
Date - 1854-1860
Home and Family - Daily life
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Journal
People - American Indians - Missions
People - Women
Places - Other States - New Mexico
Thematic Time Period - Trails, 1821-1880 - Santa Fe Trail
Transportation - Non-motorized - Covered wagons
Transportation - Trails - Santa Fe
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Journal
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