Author: Thomas D. Clark
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813188253
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
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 Extensive notes supplement the text, associating it with numerous other published and unpublished accounts, while an appendix of reports and letters from the Marietta newspaper reveals the involvement of those at home with the Gold Rush. An annotated map shows Perkins' progress along the Overland Trail.
The Lost Gold Rush Journals
Author: Larry Obermesik
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736529928
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Between 1849-1865 Daniel Jenks kept a detailed journal of his extraordinary adventures across America's Wild West. A literary treasure, buried in the archives for over 150 years and never published. Go West, young man! With Daniel Jenks.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736529928
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Between 1849-1865 Daniel Jenks kept a detailed journal of his extraordinary adventures across America's Wild West. A literary treasure, buried in the archives for over 150 years and never published. Go West, young man! With Daniel Jenks.
South Pass, 1868
Author: James Chisholm
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803258242
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
"James Chisholm was a staff writer For The Chicago Tribune sent to report on the gold strike made in the late 1860s at one of the great historical features of the continent?South Pass on the western trails. His journal, illustrated by himself, Is a graceful, observant narrative full of the real essence of frontier mining camp life."?Library Journal. "Chisholm had a lively sense of humor, An engaging frankness, and a fine eye for landscape. He was also a candid social critic."?Rocky Mountain News. "Lovers of the Old West will buy Chisholm's Journal and never part with it."?Pacific Historical Review. "If South Pass failed to produce gold in the paying quantities James Chisholm's miners thought it would, Chisholm himself produced finer, more lasting gold in his journal account of Wyoming's short-lived gold rush. His journal exudes the smell of sagebrush and scenic panoramas, Of torrential rain storms and night packing, Of being small in a big land, and of honest, earthy people who, In business-like fashion, went about the task of risking life, limb, health, and what small fortunes they had, To hit the big one. Chisholm sees with unpretentious eyes. His is an honest appraisal from a detached journalist, leavened with self-effacing humor. His prose is clean and clear. it can be read aloud and remembered."?Charles E. Rankin, editor of Montana the Magazine of Western History. Lola M. Homsher was director of the Wyoming State Archives and Historical Department.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803258242
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
"James Chisholm was a staff writer For The Chicago Tribune sent to report on the gold strike made in the late 1860s at one of the great historical features of the continent?South Pass on the western trails. His journal, illustrated by himself, Is a graceful, observant narrative full of the real essence of frontier mining camp life."?Library Journal. "Chisholm had a lively sense of humor, An engaging frankness, and a fine eye for landscape. He was also a candid social critic."?Rocky Mountain News. "Lovers of the Old West will buy Chisholm's Journal and never part with it."?Pacific Historical Review. "If South Pass failed to produce gold in the paying quantities James Chisholm's miners thought it would, Chisholm himself produced finer, more lasting gold in his journal account of Wyoming's short-lived gold rush. His journal exudes the smell of sagebrush and scenic panoramas, Of torrential rain storms and night packing, Of being small in a big land, and of honest, earthy people who, In business-like fashion, went about the task of risking life, limb, health, and what small fortunes they had, To hit the big one. Chisholm sees with unpretentious eyes. His is an honest appraisal from a detached journalist, leavened with self-effacing humor. His prose is clean and clear. it can be read aloud and remembered."?Charles E. Rankin, editor of Montana the Magazine of Western History. Lola M. Homsher was director of the Wyoming State Archives and Historical Department.
Hazelet's Journal
Author: George Cheever Hazelet
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938462009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Hazelet's Journal is a remarkable true American story not only about a man and his family but about a restless nation finding its way into the twentieth century. An insight into those that came before us.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938462009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Hazelet's Journal is a remarkable true American story not only about a man and his family but about a restless nation finding its way into the twentieth century. An insight into those that came before us.
Gold Rush Diary
Author: Thomas D. Clark
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813188253
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
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. An annotated map shows Perkins' progress along the Overland Trail.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813188253
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
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. An annotated map shows Perkins' progress along the Overland Trail.
Engineering and Mining Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Queensland Government Mining Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Engineering and Mining Journal-press
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1328
Book Description
Mining Journal, Railway & Commercial Gazette
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 786
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ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Canadian Mining Journal
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
The Mining Journal, Railway and Commercial Gazette
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description