HISTORY NEBRASKA MANUSCRIPT FINDING AID
RG0905.AM: Eugene Munn, 1836-1919
Reminiscence: Undated
Size: One folder
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
The collection consists of a typescript reminiscence entitled, “Reminiscences of My Life – From Boyhood,” by Eugene Munn, Otoe County, Nebraska. The reminiscence documents his life up to 1891. It mostly describes his career as a freighter to Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Montana from the late 1850s to the mid-1860s. Munn worked for the Russell, Majors & Waddell Company as well as others. He writes about many details of his journeys: daily life; relationships with Indians and with Mormons; weather (including the blizzard at Fowlers Bluffs on April 12, 1862); the land; and the wagon train encounters with buffalo. He also writes about a confrontation with a Claim Protecting Club in 1857 when he lived in Cass County, Nebraska. In the 1870s-1880s he was active in local and state politics. Munn served three separate terms in the Nebraska State Legislature between 1871 and 1887.
Also included with the reminiscence is a photocopy of his biography that appears in “Otoe County Pioneers.”
Note: See also Proceedings and Collections of the Nebraska State Historical Society, vol. 10, pp. 313-317: “Early Freighting and Claims Club Days in Nebraska,” by Eugene Munn.
Subject headings:
Freight and freightage
Legislators — Nebraska — Otoe County
Montana — Description and travel
Munn, Eugene Campbell, 1836-1919
Nebraska — Description and travel
Otoe County (Nebraska) — History
Overland journeys
Politicians — Nebraska — Otoe County
Russell, Majors & Waddell Company
Utah — Description and travel
Wyoming — Description and travel
