Title: The road to California
Description: "Attempting to fill an empty space in western literature, this book then is concerned with the search for and use of the southern overland route to California from the earliest Spanish penetration into the present United States Southwest to 1849, just before the country was inundated, comparitively speaking, by California bound argonauts"--Pref.
Subjects: History, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Spaniards in the New Southwest, Spaniards, California, history
Places: Mexico, New Southwest
Time periods: 1821-1861, To 1810, To 1848