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Gold Rush Diary: Being the Journal of Elisha Douglas Perkins on the Overland Trail in the Spring and

by Gold Rush Diary: Being the Journal of Elisha Douglas Perkins on the Overland Trail in the Spring and Summer of 1849

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Among the hundreds captivated by the vision of quick riches in the gold fields of California was Elisha Douglass Perkins, a tall handsome youth from Marietta, Ohio, who has here left a remarkable first-hand account of the great trek westward in 1849. Perkins' diary is an unusually full and intimate record of crossing the plains and mountains of the Great West. Extensive notes supplement the text, associating it with numerous other published and unpublished accounts, while an appendix of rep

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  • Jul 15, 2014 Pub Date:
  • 0813156025 ISBN-10:
  • 9780813156026 ISBN-13:
  • English Language