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

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 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Delano, Alonzo, 1806-1874
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Alexandria, Va.] : [Time-Life Books], [1981]
Series:Classics of the Old West.
Subjects:
Delano, Alonzo, > 1806-1874.
Overland journeys to the Pacific.
Indians of North America > West (U.S.)
Indigenous peoples > West (U.S.)
Travel.
Indians of North America.
West (U.S.) > Description and travel.
West United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Unexpected era in life
  • Rolling prairie
  • Big Namaha
  • A change for the better
  • Laramie Peak
  • Over the North Platte
  • Valley of the Sweet Water
  • Leaving South Pass
  • Hunting excursion
  • Hot Spring Valley
  • Broken surface of the country
  • Hot springs
  • The Sierra Nevada in sight
  • Leaving the valley of Pitt River
  • Sufferings of the emigrants on the journey in the fall of 1849 and 1850
  • Arrival at Sutter's fort
  • Hardships of the miners
  • Trouble with the Indians on the South Fork
  • Stolen cattle
  • Influence over the Indians
  • Disposition and the character of the Indians
  • Peter the hunter
  • Departure for the Gold Lake country
  • Nelson's creek
  • Arrival at San Francisco
  • Resources of California
  • California.

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