Nylyes, Idethia

Autograph Journal signed ("Idethia Nylyes"), of her 1887 tour of the West

Cambridge, Mass, may 5, - july 14, 1897 The journal of a young Boston woman's travels out West in 1887. Her itinerary takes her through Port Huron, Chicago, Lincoln Park, Lake Michigan; then the via train through Kansas, across the Rockies, through the Southwest, Santa Fe, Arizona ('saw many horrible Indians"), crossed the Colorado River (the bridge was proniunced unsafe by Mr. Aldrich"), on to Los Angeles and excursions in Southern California (including a trip to the San Gabriel Wine Co. and a tasting of their 14-year old 'Angelica'; San Francisco and the Bay area,the Stock Exchange ("I never heard such a noise. The were very excited and hollering to the top of their voices"), Chinatown, a visit to an Opium Den, the theater ("there are no lady actors they are all men"); on the Portland, Oregon, Mt. Hood, the Dalles, Mt. Tacoma, etc. Perhaps the high point of the diary comes with a lengthy visit to the recently established Yellowstone Park, finally to the Grand Canyon, and then back home 8vo. 99 pp.in pencil on versos and rectos of ruled note paper. Red straight-grained morocco with gilt-stamped "Record" on spine. Author's pencilled inscription on flyleaf; "Idethia Nylyes / Cambridge / Mass", along with several other notes

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