SC42 Jim Bridger Collection Finding Aid

This one box, 16 folder collection includes photographs, photocopied correspondence, newspaper clippings, and charts. The 24 photographs in this collection are primarily of Bridger relatives including Bridger's daughter, Virginia. Genealogy charts for the family and correspondence between relatives is also included. There are photographs taken in 1923 of Ezra Meeker and the ruins of Fort Bridger in Wyoming as well as of Oregon Trail remaining ruts.

1804/1881

Explorers
Bridger, Jim
Oregon Trail
Wachsmann-Hahn, Virginia Bridger
Wachsmann Family
Meeker, Ezra
Fort Bridger

Finding Aid

SC42