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Robert Walton Whitworth Diary

出版	1846
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bfpIzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Handwritten diary, with an unknown number of missing pages at the beginning and end, recording an Englishman's journey from England to California via New Orleans and Kansas during the Mexican War. Irregular dated entries begin with Robert Walton Whitworth's ship in the Carribean near Jamaica, then to New Orleans and a trip up the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, before joining the Iowa Mormon Battalion at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. From there he marched with the battalion overland to California, via Santa Fe, New Mexico and Sonora, Mexico. Includes rich descriptions of the landscape and activities he witnessed along the way, descriptions of Apache and Pima Indians, pen-and-ink sketches of desert vegetation in Arizona and New Mexico, and camping at San Luis Rey Mission, San Diego and Los Angeles. After the arrival of General Kearny and the American forces in Los Angeles, the battalion was discharged on July 16, 1847. Whitworth then goes to Los Angeles with some other men before heading to an unidentified destination. Also includes a small pen-and-ink sketch of the San Luis Rey Mission.