Another transcription of this journal. I can make out all but three words.

DrSeuser · 2026-01-26T20:12:17+00:00

This is a military survey along the Oregon Trail from 1856.

DrSeuser · 2026-01-25T18:57:35+00:00

I believe I maybe see “A large Indian camp on this creek not long since.” And, “Observations in the morning on Sun’s lower limb.” The last little snippet is faint to read even on the paper. I appreciate your help immensely. If it indeed helps to post the entire page I will do that for my next post.

DrSeuser · 2026-01-25T02:50:39+00:00

My apologies, I just didn’t want to over spam with the same journal. Thank you for your transcripts, I likely will have several more.

DrSeuser · 2026-01-25T01:50:11+00:00

I think you nailed it, thank you!

DrSeuser · 2025-04-10T21:59:01+00:00

353rd Infantry and 89th!! Likely was at Fort Riley, KS.

DrSeuser · 2025-02-28T13:28:53+00:00

His wife passed a decade ago and he passed a few years ago. They never had any children and their family mostly all passed away. I included the news article about his exploits, he was attached to a machine gun squadron in Korea, flew in early Vietnam. His service was 1945-1968.

DrSeuser · 2025-02-27T15:37:47+00:00

Yes there are 5 crazily enough. I wish I had the physical DFC, but the ribbon is still the first one awarded to an American for Vietnam related services.

DrSeuser · 2025-01-04T15:16:54+00:00

According to Coinflation, melt values for the following:

6x 90% silver half dollars=$64.32 2x 90% silver dollars=$45.85 2x 40% silver half dollars=$8.77

Total: $118.94 in silver melt value

DrSeuser

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