Scharmann's overland journey to California
Subtitle: from the pages of a pioneer's diary
By: from the German of H.B. Scharmann, by Margaret Hoff Zimmermann, A.B., and Erich W. Zimmermann, Ph. D.
Contributors: Zimmermann, Margaret Hoff.; Zimmermann, Erich W. 1888-
Published: 1918
Place of publication: [n.p
Language: eng
Number of pages: 114
Subjects: Overland journeys to the Pacific.; Frontier and pioneer life -- California.; Ethnic groups -- California.; California -- Gold discoveries.
Description: Herman Scharmann left Germany as head of a company of gold-seekers bound for California in 1849. Scharmann's overland journey to California (1918) describes his family's journey from New York to their wagon train in Independence, Missouri, and the trip across the Plains via Fort Kearny and Fort Laramie. When his wife and daughter die shortly after reaching California, Scharmann and two sons push ahead to the gold fields at Feather River and Middle Fork, and the American River and Negro Bar. He offers a brutal picture of the exploitation of emigrant parties and of the drudgery of prospecting and of towns like Marysville, Sacramento, and San Francisco, 1849-1851.
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Reprinted from New Yorker staats-zeitung, 1852.
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