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.
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Language: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2016]
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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