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Title: Life on the plains and among the diggings: being scenes and
adventures of an overland journey to California: with particular
incidents of the route, mistakes and sufferings of the emigrants,
the Indian tribes, the present and the future of the great
West.Author: Alonzo DelanoPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography,
Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a
collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the
Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and
exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War
and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP04388300CollectionID:
CTRG03-B556PublicationDate: 18540101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Collation: 384 p., 4] leaves of plates: ill.; 20 cm
Additional Illustrator Is Harry O. Diamond. Additional Contributors
Are Michael Harrington And Marion Tinling. Being Letters Hitherto
Uncollected From The Ottawa, Illinois, Free Trader And The New
Orleans True Delta, 1849-1852.
Additional Illustrator Is Harry O. Diamond. Additional Contributors
Are Michael Harrington And Marion Tinling. Being Letters Hitherto
Uncollected From The Ottawa, Illinois, Free Trader And The New
Orleans True Delta, 1849-1852.
With Particular Incidents Of The Route, Mistakes And Sufferings Of
The Emigrants, The Indian Tribes, The Present And The Future Of The
Great West.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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With Particular Incidents Of The Route, Mistakes And Sufferings Of
The Emigrants, The Indian Tribes, The Present And The Future Of The
Great West.
With Particular Incidents Of The Route, Mistakes And Sufferings Of
The Emigrants, The Indian Tribes, The Present And The Future Of The
Great West.
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,
recounting his experiences among the more than thirty thousand
goldseekers representing all thirty states who struggled across
half of the continent to California’s “gold fields.” With
each entry the reader is drawn into the changing circumstances,
from a hurried trailside burial of a comrade to a defense against
an Indian attack; from suffering thirst in the desert to anger at a
lazy campmate. Unlike most diarists who at the end of the
epic journey gave up their demanding task, Delano continued his
vivid account until the summer of 1851. He went on to report as a
professional journalist, ranging far and wide across the scenes of
life in the diggings and the cities, from prospecting along the
Yuba River to witnessing lynch law in San Francisco. First
published in 1854 as Life on the Plains and among the Diggings and
deemed a California Gold Rush classic, this new edition will carry
on the adventure for thousands of new readers.
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