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.