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Diary of
Levi Edmonds, Sr.
3rd Lieutenant, Co. A., 1st Regiment
Illinois Volunteers
A.D. 1847 to 1848
Copy acquired from Cornell University, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
by Mary White and Mary Kate Rogers, December 2006
Transcribed and interpreted
by Tracy Edmonds Patterson and Mary Kate Rogers, Final July 2011
Special thanks to the Kansas State Historical Society
For the map of the Santa Fe Trail
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