On the Trail to the California Gold Rush

by J.S.Holliday (Introduction), Alonzo Delano (Author)

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Lured by the astonishing accounts of the vast deposits of gold in California, Alonzo Delano (1806-74) of Ottawa, Illinois, bid farewell to his wife and children and joined the rush to El Dorado. For the next five months - April to early September 1849 - he persevered in writing his remarkably detailed diary.

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Lured by "the astonishing accounts of the vast deposits of gold in California," Alonzo Delano (1806-74) of Ottawa, Illinois, bid farewell to his wife and children and joined the rush to El Dorado. For the next five months - April to early September 1849 - he persevered in writing his remarkably detailed diary.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 371
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 31 Jul 2005
ISBN 10: 0803266499
ISBN 13: 9780803266490

On the Trail to the California Gold Rush

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