Mexican gold trail
Subtitle: the journal of a forty-niner
By: by George W.B. Evans ; edited by Glenn S. Dumke ; with a preface by Robert Glass Cleland.
Contributors: Dumke, Glenn S.
Series: Huntington Library publications; A Huntington Library classic; Huntington classics
Publisher: Huntington Library
Published: 2006
Place of publication: San Marino, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780873282222
Subjects: Evans, George W. B., -- 1819-1850 -- Diaries.; Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Diaries.; Overland journeys to the Pacific.; Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.); California -- Gold discoveries.; Chihuahua (Mexico : State) -- Description and travel.; Mexico -- Description and travel.; California -- Description and travel.; Southwest, New -- Description and travel.
Genres: Diaries.
First sentence: The whole country, from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and from the sea shore to the base of the Sierra Nevadas, resounds with the sordid cry, "gold, Gold, GOLD!" while the field is left half planted, the house half built, and everything neglected but the manufacture of shovels and pickaxes.
Description: On February 20, 1849, twenty nine-year-old attorney George W. B. Evans set out from Defiance, Ohio, determined to make a fortune for his wife and family in the gold rush. He kept a painstaking record of his journey to California on one of the least known of the overland routes, crossing northern Mexico on the wild, little-used trail through Chihuahua and across the deserts of southern Arizona. Along the way, he faced many perils and hardships, including cholera outbreaks, Indian attacks, and long, waterless treks. Evans reached the Agua Fria diggings on the Mariposa Grant in late October that year but failed to strike it rich. Moving on to work as a customs inspector in San Francisco and then as an auctioneer in Sacramento, he became weakened by disease and overwork and died at age thirty one on December 16, 1850.
Notes: Originally published: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, c1945.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-331) and index.