Author : Thomas Spalding Wylly
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Book Synopsis Reminicences [sic] of a Trip from Georgia to California and Back by : Thomas Spalding Wylly
Download or read book Reminicences [sic] of a Trip from Georgia to California and Back written by Thomas Spalding Wylly and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of his overland journey to California with a wagon train led by Emanuel Hooker; stopover in Salt Lake City; meeting John D. Lee; Mormons and Mormonism; experiences with Indians, especially with the Digger Indians; cholera and other hardships of the Southern route; arrival in California at Isaac Williams's ranch; description of Los Angeles and travels north to the mines; mining at Weber's Creek near Placerville; gambling in the mines and running a saloon; San Francisco; return to Georgia, going across Nicaragua to Chagres and thence to New Orleans; service in the Civil War; and life in Georgia after the war. With this, as v. 2: Westward Ho - in '49: Memoirs of Captain Thomas S. Wylly, carbon typescript of material in volume 1, prepared for publication, with notes and biographical information supplied by his grandson, Thomas S. Wylly, III. Copies of photographs and maps inserted.