New worlds to seek
Subtitle: pioneer Heinrich Lienhard in Switzerland and America, 1824-1846
By: translated and annotated by Raymond J. Spahn ; edited by John C. Abbott ; with a foreword by John H. Lienhard IV.
Contributors: Spahn, Raymond Jürgen.; Abbott, John C. 1921-
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Lienhard, Heinrich, 1822-1903; Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography; Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.); Swiss Americans -- West (U.S.) -- Biography; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel; Illinois -- Description and travel; Iowa -- Description and travel; Highland (Ill.) -- Biography; Glarus (Switzerland : Canton) -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Lienhard's account of his early years consists of four segments: his boyhood and young manhood in the Swiss canton of Glarus, 1824-1843; his journey to America, August-November 1843; his two and a half years in Highland, Illinois; and his life in the upper Mississippi Valley. This section ends in April 1846, when Lienhard began the arduous and dangerous journey from St. Louis to Captain John Sutter's fort at New Helvetia, California.".

"Lienhard has provided an unusually full account of his early life. The book contains fifty-one chapters, with each chapter featuring one or more life-shaping incidents for this pioneer who would successfully cross the Rocky Mountains at the same time the Donner party, taking a different and more obvious route, perished."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-248) and index.
Translation of folios 1-51, page 1, line 22 of Lienhard's manuscript autobiography, which is located at the Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley.