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• Author/Creator:Swift, W. H.
  
• Title:Journal, 1856-1858.
  
• Physical Description:1 v. (51 p.) ; 26 cm.
  

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  • Location:LSF- BEINECKE
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: WA MSS S-193
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Summary:Diary contains entries from July 1 to September 5, 1856, January 11 to March 11, 1857, and February 14 to June 12, 1858, describing Swift's activities as a surveyor in Leavenworth, Kansas, and the local struggle between the Free-Soil and proslavery parties.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• References:Goddard, J. M. and C. Kritzler. Catalogue of the Beinecke Western Americana Manuscripts, 238.
  
• Cite as:William H. Swift Journal. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
  
• Subjects:Swift, W. H.
  Slavery--United States.
  Kansas--History.
  Leavenworth (Kan.)--History.
  
• Genre/Form:Diaries--United States.
  
• Occupation:Surveyors Kansas.