A Quaker Forty-niner : : The Adventures of Charles Edward Pancoast on the American Frontier / / 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.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1930 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (430 p.) :; 14 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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