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Author Perkins, Elisha Douglass, 1823-1852.

Title Gold rush diary, being the journal of Elisha Douglass Perkins on the Overland Trail in the spring and summer of 1849 Edited by Thomas D. Clark
Published Lexington, University of Kentucky Press, 1967

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 206 pages) illustrations, maps, portraits
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Introduction; May 9-June 14, 1849; June 15-July 1, 1849; July 2-July 22, 1849; July 23-August 8, 1849; August 9-August 19, 1849; August 20-September 14, 1849; September 15-September 27, 1849; September 28, 1849-February 28, 1850; Appendix; Bibhography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary 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 Extensive notes supplement the text, associating it with numerous other published and unpublished accounts, while an appendix of reports and letters from the Marietta newspaper reveals the involvement of those at home with the Gold Rush
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-201)
Notes English
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Subject Perkins, Elisha Douglass, 1823-1852 -- Diaries
SUBJECT Perkins, Elisha Douglass, 1823-1852. fast (OCoLC)fst00424579
Subject Overland journeys to the Pacific.
Frontier and pioneer life -- California
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Gold mines and mining.
Overland journeys to the Pacific.
SUBJECT California -- Gold discoveries. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85018877
Subject California.
Genre/Form Diaries.
Form Electronic book
Author Clark, Thomas Dionysius, 1903-2005, editor.
LC no. 66026690
ISBN 9780813165271
081316527X