The dreadful sufferings and thrilling adventures of an overland party of emigrants to California
Subtitle: their terrible conflicts with savage tribes of Indians and Mexican bands of robbers, with marriage, funeral, and other interesting ceremonies and customs of Indian life in the Far West : compiled from the journal of George Adam, one of the adventurers
By: by Wm. Beschke
Contributors: Newberry Library
Publisher: Barclay & Co.
Published: 1850
Place of publication: St. Louis, Mo
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 60
Subjects: Overland journeys to the Pacific; Fiction; Description and travel; Indians of North America; Social life and customs; Indian captivities; Western stories
Other titles: American West (Marlborough, England)
Notes: "Although purported to have been compiled from an overland journal, this narrative is almost certainly fictitious both as to events and characters"--Wagner-Camp; Cf. Wright.

Wagner-Camp (4th ed.), 179:2

Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1774-1850 (2nd ed.), 309

Newberry Library, Chicago

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