Life on the plains and among the diggings
Subtitle: being scenes and adventures of an overland journey to California: with particular incidents of the route, mistakes and sufferings of the emigrants, the Indian tribes, the present and future of the great West.
By: By A. Delano.
Edition: [4th thousand]
Publisher: Miller, Orton & co.
Published: 1857
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Indians of North America -- West (U.S.); Overland journeys to the Pacific; Urbanization -- California; Real estate development -- California; Mines and mineral resources -- California; Business -- California; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel; California -- Gold discoveries; California -- Description and travel
Description: Born in Aurora, New York, Alonzo Delano (1806-1874) moved on to the Midwest as a teenager. July 1848 found him a consumptive Ottawa, Illinois, storekeeper, and he joined a local California Company. He remained in the West after the Gold Rush, winning fame as an early California humorist. Life on the plains and among the diggings (1857) is based largely on letters from Delano published in Ottawa and New Orleans newspapers of the day (see Alonzo Delano's California correspondence [1952]). Covering the period April 1849-August 1852, he discusses his voyage to St. Joseph and an overland journey to California; sojourns in Sacramento, Marysville, and San Francisco; and experiences as a storekeeper at Mud Hill, Stingtown, Gold Lake, and Grass Valley. Other topics include quartz mining, crime and vigilantism, and real estate investment.
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