The great trek
By: by Owen Cochran Coy ...
Series: California
Publisher: Powell Publishing Company
Published: 1931
Place of publication: Los Angeles; San Francisco [etc.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
Subjects: Overland journeys to the Pacific.; California -- Gold discoveries.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [323]-336.
Illustrated lining-papers.
"Illustrations specially produced for this work by Franz Geritz."
The plan of the author has been to give an account of the overland emigration to the Pacific during the epoch of 1849 as nearly as possible in the words of contemporaneous writers. Where a single narrative would not suffice, the diaries of several travelers have been placed together in a sort of literary mosaic. cf. Pref.