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Book/Printed Material California. A trip across the plains, in the spring of 1850, being a daily record of incidents of the trip ... and containing valuable information to emigrants ...

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Title

  • California. A trip across the plains, in the spring of 1850, being a daily record of incidents of the trip ... and containing valuable information to emigrants ...

Summary

  • James Abbey was a member of a party that left New Albany, Indiana, for California in the spring of 1850. California. A trip across the plains (1850) is reprinted here from a version published in the Magazine of history, 1933. It is based on the diary kept by Abbey during that journey and letters he sent to friends at home as his party made their way from Indiana to St. Louis, where they joined a larger wagon train, and on to California via Fort Laramie, South Pass, Salt Lake, and Carson Pass. The story continues with accounts of his first days as a prospector near Weaverville after the party reached California in August.

Names

  • Abbey, James.

Created / Published

  • [Tarrytown, N.Y., Reprinted, W. Abbatt, 1933]

Headings

  • -  Overland journeys to the Pacific
  • -  Mines and mineral resources--California

Notes

  • -  "The first portion of the sketches ... were published in the columns of the New Albany ledger."--Introd.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Medium

  • 63 p. 27 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • E173 .M24 no. 183

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 33009652

Online Format

  • image
  • pdf
  • online text

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"California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900.

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Chicago citation style:

Abbey, James. California. A trip across the plains, in the spring of , being a daily record of incidents of the trip ... and containing valuable information to emigrants. [Tarrytown, N.Y., Reprinted, W. Abbatt, 1933] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/33009652/.

APA citation style:

Abbey, J. (1933) California. A trip across the plains, in the spring of , being a daily record of incidents of the trip ... and containing valuable information to emigrants. [Tarrytown, N.Y., Reprinted, W. Abbatt] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/33009652/.

MLA citation style:

Abbey, James. California. A trip across the plains, in the spring of , being a daily record of incidents of the trip ... and containing valuable information to emigrants. [Tarrytown, N.Y., Reprinted, W. Abbatt, 1933] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/33009652/>.