Gold rush diary, being the journal of Elisha Douglass Perkins on the Overland Trail in the spring and summer of 1849

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 inti...

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Author / Creator: Perkins, Elisha Douglass, 1823-1852.
Other Authors / Creators:Clark, Thomas Dionysius, 1903-2005, editor.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:English.
Imprint: Lexington, University of Kentucky Press, 1967.
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