A Quaker Forty-niner : : The Adventures of Charles Edward Pancoast on the American Frontier / / Charles Edward Pancoast; Anna Paschall Hannum.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Pancoast, Charles Edward,
• HerausgeberIn: Hannum, Anna Paschall,
• TeilnehmendeR: McMaster, John Bach
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1930
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (430 p.) :; 14 illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Foreword --; Preface --; I. New Jersey Boyhood --; II. Apprenticeship in Philadelphia --; III. Go West, Young Man --; IV. A Meeting with Lincoln --; V. Lexington: A Visit Home --; VI. Crowded Out of Lexington --; VII. A Tough Frontier Town --; VIII. Ostracism and Murder --; IX. Steamboating on the Osage --; X. Merchants, Soldiers, Gamblers --; XI. Boat and Fortune Wrecked --; XII. Gold Fever --; XIII. Across the Plains --; XIV. Pueblo to Santa Fe --; XV. In New Mexico --; XVI. Over the Continental Divide --; XVII.The American Desert --; XVIII. California and Gold --; XIX. Prospecting and Digging --; XX. A Northward Journey --; XXI. On the Trinity River --; XXII. The Rancho of the Angels --; XXIII. The Great Flood --; XXIV. Sacramento and San Francisco --; XXV. End of the Odyssey --; Conclusion --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512805420; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512805420
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Charles Edward Pancoast; Anna Paschall Hannum.

A dramatic, first-hand account of the pioneering life in the West--steamboating on the Missouri and the gold rush to California.