California Odyssey. An Overland Journey On The Southern Trails, 1849

GOULDING, WILLIAM R. [ETTER, PATRICIA A. EDITED BY]

Publication: The Arthur H Clark Company, 2009, Norman

First edition. 8vo. Red cloth, titles stamped in gold gilt on the front cover and spine, 356 pp., foreword, preface, introduction, illustrated, maps, frontispiece, footnotes, appendices, bibliography, index. Foreword by Howard R. Lamar. Excited about the news of the California gold rush Goulding and his business partner became part of a 64 men in 1849 to travel by way of Fort Smith, Arkansas, to Santa Fe and then across southern New Mexico and future Arizona to California. His journal about encounters with Indians he met is significant..Also much information is provided about the stop at the William's Rancho Santa Ana del Chino, better known as the Williams's Ranch.. As new, unread copy without dust jacket as issued.

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