Title: Journal of a trip to California :
Authors: Smith, Charles W.; Vail, R. W. G.; Vail, R. W. G.; Vail, R. W. G.
Date: 1920
Publisher: The Cadmus Book Shop,
Physical description: 79 pages ; 21 cm
Language: English
LC classification: F
Contents: Introduction / R.W.G. Vail -- Letter to Mother / C.W. Smith -- Trip to California -- Down the Ohio -- Up the Missouri [River] -- Slow headway -- Western ferry boats -- The St. Joseph road -- Indian depredations -- Wisconsin wagons -- Little Blue River -- Platte River bottom -- Runaway horses -- Herds of buffaloes -- The Upper Platte -- An Indian village -- A real hail storm -- Chimney Rock -- Laramie River -- Trials and hardships -- Laramie Peak -- Where miles are long -- Independence Rock -- Sweet Water [Sweetwater] Valley -- Crossing a desert -- Big Sandy to Green River -- A ludicrous incident -- Bear River Valley -- Sour waters -- Mosquitoes and buffaloes -- Prairie squirrels -- Fourth of July -- Humboldt Mountains -- Horse thieves -- A desolate plain -- Scarcity of food -- Diversity of country -- Like California.
Notes: Master microform held by: ResP.
Subject headings (LCSH): Overland journeys to the Pacific--1850.; Overland journeys to the Pacific.; Smith, C. W. (Charles W.) (Author of Journal of a trip to California); Smith, Charles W.