| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | A pioneer of 1850: George Willis Read, 1819-1880; the record of a journey overland from Independence, Missouri, to Hangtown (Placerville), California, in the spring of 1850, with a letter from the diggings in October of the same year and an account of a journey from New York to California, via Panama, in 1862, capture by the Confederate raider Alabama, etc., and a visit to the Nevada silver mining district in 1863
| | | | Creator: | Read, George Willis, 1819-1880 | | | | | Read, Georgia Willis | | | | Publication: | Little, Brown, and company, Boston,1927. | | | | Notes: | Bibliography: p. [161]-172. | | | | Call #: | F42J R282 | | | | Extent: | xxvi, 185 p. front. (port.) plates, fold. map. 23 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Overland journeys to the Pacific | Voyages to the Pacific coast | California -- Gold discoveries
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | A frontier lady: recollections of the gold rush and early California
| | | | Creator: | Royce, Sarah Bayliss. | | | | | Gabriel, Ralph Henry, 1890-1987 | | | | Publication: | Yale University Press, H. Milford, Oxford University Press, New Haven, London,[1933] | | | | Notes: | "Second printing ... 1933." | | | | Call #: | F65J R888 | | | | Extent: | xiv p., 2 l., 3-144 p. map. 22 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Frontier and pioneer life -- California | Overland journeys to the Pacific | California -- Gold discoveries
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 4 | Title: | The overland journal of Amos Piatt Josselyn: Zanesville, Ohio, to the Sacramento Valley, April 2, 1849, to September 11, 1849 : together with letters, financial accounts, a guide, and related documentary materials concerning his life before, during, and after the California gold rush
| | | | Creator: | Josselyn, Amos Piatt, 1820-1885 | | | | | Barrett, J. William. | | | | Publication: | Gateway Press, Baltimore,1978. | | | | Notes: | Includes index. Bibliography: p. 124-126. | | | | Call #: | F42J J84O | | | | Extent: | 129 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Josselyn, Amos Piatt, -- 1820-1885 | Overland journeys to the Pacific | Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography | California -- Gold discoveries
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 7 | Title: | Life on the plains 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 future of the great West
| | | | Creator: | Delano, Alonzo, 1806-1874 | | | | Publication: | Orton & Mulligan, Auburn and Buffalo, Miller,1854 | | | | Notes: | Library has two copies Copy 1 imperfect: lacking fly leaf | | | | Call #: | F42J D337 | | | | Extent: | xi, [13]-384 p. front., plates. 20 cm | | | | Subjects: | Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) | Overland journeys to the Pacific | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel | California -- Gold discoveries
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 9 | Title: | The experiences of a Forty-niner during thirty-four years' residence in California and Australia
| | | | Creator: | Ferguson, Charles D., b. 1832 or 3 | | | | | Wallace, Frederick T., 1820-1895 | | | | Publication: | The Williams publishing company, Cleveland, O,1888. | | | | Notes: | Cover-title: A third of a century in the gold fields. | | | | Call #: | F42J F352 | | | | Extent: | xviii, 9-507 p. front., illus., plates, port. 23 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Ferguson, Charles D., -- b. 1832 or 3 | Overland journeys to the Pacific | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel | California -- Gold discoveries | Australia -- Description and travel | Cleveland imprints 1888
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