With golden visions bright before them
Subtitle: trails to the mining West, 1849-1852
By: Will Bagley
Series: Overland West : the story of the Oregon & California Trails and the creation of the mining West -- v. 2
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780806142845; 9780870624186
Subjects: Gold discoveries; Overland journeys to the Pacific; Frontier and pioneer life; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Men of enterprise and adventure : the rush begins; title: Avarice seems to rule : the forty-niners set out; title: Which road to take? : South Pass to City of Rocks; title: First flight of forty-niners : the race to the goldfields; title: Shortcuts to death : cutoffs, detours, and delusion in 1849; title: A new and shorter route : Lassen's Horn; title: Passing swarms : the trails in 1850; title: The very windows of heaven : the bust of 1851; title: The great tide of emigration : the trails in 1852; title: This insatiate thirst for gold : the birth of the mining West.