At the extremity of civilization
Subtitle: a meticulously descriptive diary of an Illinois physician's journey in 1849 along the Oregon Trail to the goldmines and cholera of California, thence in two years to return by boat via Panama
By: by Israel Shipman Pelton Lord ; edited by Necia Dixon Liles ; with a foreword by J.S. Holliday.
Contributors: Liles, Necia Dixon.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 441
Subjects: Lord, Israel Shipman Pelton, b. 1805 -- Diaries.; Overland journeys to the Pacific.; Oregon National Historic Trail.; West (U.S.) -- History -- 1848-1860.; California -- History -- 1846-1850.; Panama -- Description and travel.
Notes: Subtitle on cover: An Illinois physician's journey to California in 1849.
Includes index.