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What I saw in California : being the journal of a tour by the emigrant route and South Pass of the Rocky Mountains, across the continent of North America, the Great Desert Basin, and through California, in the years 1846, 1847. / by Edwin Bryant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bryant, Edwin, 1805-1869.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bryant, Edwin, 1805-1869--Travel--West (U.S.).
- Bryant, Edwin.
- Overland journeys to the Pacific.
- Bear Flag Revolt, 1846.
- California--Description and travel.
- California.
- California--History--To 1846.
- West (U.S.)--Description and travel.
- West (U.S.).
- West (U.S.)--History--To 1848.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (469 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : Narrative Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Edwin Bryant made the journey from Independence, Missouri to California in the years 1846-47, traversing the plains, the desert, and the southern pass of the Rocky Mountains. As a medical student, he became an unofficial doctor along the way, and describes some pretty gruesome scenes, like the amputation of a little boy's leg. Much of the narrative is concerned with the life of the wagon train, whose daily trials are illuminated in Bryant's careful prose.
- Contents:
- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- SPRING
- WAGONS AND TEAMS
- ENCAMPED
- THUNDER-STORM
- SICKNESS
- UP THE PLATTE
- FORT LARAMIE
- SWEETWATER RIVER
- GREEN RIVER
- UTAH INDIANS
- SALT LAKE
- SALT DESERT
- SALT PLAIN
- DIGGER INDIANS
- SOUTHWEST
- SIERRA NEVADA PASS
- RESIDENCE OF MR. JOHNSON
- VALLEY OF THE SACRAMENTO
- TABLE
- INDEPENDENCE, MISSOURI,
- SUTTER'S FORT,
- SACRAMENTO
- UPPER CALIFORNIA.
- ACCOUNT OF TRAVELLERS
- SUTTER'S FORT
- GEOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
- CONQUEST OF THE COUNTRY
- NEW HELVETIA TO SAN FRANCISCO
- PUEBLO DE SAN JOSÉ
- SAN FRANCISCO
- SONOMA
- NUEVA HELVETIA
- CAPTAIN SUTTER
- COLONEL FREMONT'S MARCHES
- CALIFORNIA BATTALION
- SAN LUIS OBISPO
- SANTA BARBARA
- DEFEAT OF THE CALIFORNIANS
- LOS ANGELES
- CALIFORNIAN CULINARY APPARATUS
- GEN. S. W. KEARNY
- ALTA-CALIFORNIA.
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: New York : D. Appleton ; Philadelphia : G. Appleton, 1848.
- OCLC:
- 70766198
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