  Title: A Trip to California in 1853 Recollections of a Gold Seeking Trip by Ox Train across the Plains and Mountains by an Old Illinois Pioneer Author: Washington Bailey Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 E-text prepared by Karin Praetorius |
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Brief Biography Of The Author
CHAPTER I, Uncle Joshua's Visit And Our Preparations For The West
CHAPTER II, On The Western Plains—Some Of Our Experiences
CHAPTER III, Among The Foot Hills And Troublesome Indians
CHAPTER IV, Over The Mountains Into California
CHAPTER V, Prospecting For Gold—Some Hard Experiences
ERRATA
APPENDIX
A TRIP TO
CALIFORNIA IN 1853
BY WASHINGTON BAILEY
Recollections of a gold seeking trip by ox train
across the plains and mountains by an old Illinois pioneer
LeRoy Journal Printing Company
1915
Mr. Bailey was induced by some of his friends to put in writing his recollections of an overland trip made by "prairie schooner" to California, over sixty years ago. These recollections were published in the LeRoy Journal in series, and later collected and reprinted herewith in book form on the solicitation of his friends who desired a permanent record.
