A Quaker Forty-niner : the Adventures of Charles Edward Pancoast on the American Frontier /

A dramatic, first-hand account of the pioneering life in the West--steamboating on the Missouri and the gold rush to California.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pancoast, Charles Edward
Other Authors: Hannum, Anna Paschall, McMaster, John Bach
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Overland journeys to the Pacific.
Voyages par terre jusqu'au Pacifique.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Gold mines and mining.
Travel.
California > Gold discoveries.
West (U.S.) > Description and travel.
Californie > Découvertes d'or.
États-Unis (Ouest) > Descriptions et voyages.
California.
West United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • I. New Jersey Boyhood
  • II. Apprenticeship in Philadelphia
  • III. Go West, Young Man
  • IV. A Meeting with Lincoln
  • V. Lexington: A Visit Home
  • VI. Crowded Out of Lexington
  • VII. A Tough Frontier Town
  • VIII. Ostracism and Murder
  • IX. Steamboating on the Osage
  • X. Merchants, Soldiers, Gamblers
  • XI. Boat and Fortune Wrecked
  • XII. Gold Fever
  • XIII. Across the Plains
  • XIV. Pueblo to Santa Fe
  • XV. In New Mexico
  • XVI. Over the Continental Divide
  • XVII. The American Desert
  • XVIII. California and Gold
  • XIX. Prospecting and Digging
  • XX. A Northward Journey
  • XXI. On the Trinity River
  • XXII. The Rancho of the Angels
  • XXIII. The Great Flood
  • XXIV. Sacramento and San Francisco
  • XXV. End of the Odyssey
  • Conclusion
  • Index

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