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Descriptive Summary Title Dates Guide to the Charles E. Davis Overland Trail Project Collection 1925-1928 Collection number Consult repository Collector Sutter’s Fort State Historical Park Extent 3.4 cubic feet in 17 boxes Repository This collection resides at Sutter’s Fort State Historical Park, Sacramento, California. Abstract This collection contains the records of Charles E. Davis ( d.1933 ), an amateur explorer, naturalist and historian who retraced the Donner Party’s route in the years 1927 and 1928. Davis took more than one thousand photographs during the project, kept a journal of the project, and corresponded with Harry Peterson, the curator of Sutter’s Fort throughout. The Charles E. Davis material was donated to the Fort by him at the project’s conclusion. Peterson also documented Davis’ trip by collecting and assembling scrapbooks, notes, maps, clippings, and correspondence, which are also included in this collection. 28
Access This collection is open for research. Administrative Information Publication Rights Property rights reside with California State Parks. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and their heirs. For permission to reproduce or to publish, please contact California State Parks. Preferred Citation [item] the Charles E. Davis Overland Trail Project Collection, Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park, California State Parks, Sacramento, California. Related materials The collection described in this finding aid represents those materials that are archival in nature and specifically assembled to create this collection. Researchers may wish to consult The Guide to the Sutter’s Fort Collection of Donner Party Material at Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park for other documents and artifacts related to the Donner Party. Acquisition Information This bulk of this collection was donated to Sutter’s Fort by Charles E. Davis in 1927. Additional material supplementing the donation was assembled in 1927-28 by Harry C. Peterson at Sutter’s Fort Processing History This collection was processed by Larry Bishop, June 2005. The finding aid was written by and encoded by Larry Bishop. 29
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Page 3 and 4: Introduction On April 15, 1846 the
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