Contains index of every name found in the following six diaries: The Oregon Trail Diary of Twin Sisters Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank in 1852; The Oregon Trail Diary of James Akin, Jr. in 1852; The Oregon & Applegate Trail Diary of Welborn Beeson in 1853; the Oregon & Overland Trail diary of Mary Louisa Black in 1865; the Oregon & California Trail Diary of Jane Gould in 1862; The Oregon Trail Diary of Rev. Edward Evans Parrish in 1844.

There were two families Richey, as well as an Akin and an Ingram, who had been neighbors and friends for years. The families intermarried. A fourth family appears when Alice Booth married a Richey in 1843 in Henry Co., Iowa. In 1852 the families decided to move to Oregon in wagons on the emigrant trail. This is a diary recorded by 19-year- old James Akin, Jr., the eldest of the children.

Diary of an overland journey to Pacific, 1875