Research Catalog

Title

Trail to California : the overland journal of Vincent Geiger and Wakeman Bryarly / edited with an introduction by David Morris Potter.

Author

Geiger, Vincent, 1823 or 1824-1869

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1962.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bryarly, Wakeman, 1820-1869
• Potter, David Morris

Description

xvii, 266 pages : illustrations, map; 21 cm

Summary

"The only authentic contemporary records of the epic migration known as the Gold Rush are the journals which a few of the Forty-Niners kept while they were in transit. This book is principally the text of a journal begun by Vincent Geiger at St. Joseph, Missouri, and continued by Wakeman Bryarly from the North Platte until his arrival in California. In preparing the journal for publication, Mr. Potter, regarding it as more than a record of a colorful episode, has focused upon some of the neglected aspects of the great overland trek. The Gold Rush emerges as a phenomenon of genuine historical importance and not merely a glamorous incident providing dramatic relief in the record of America's past"--Jacket

Series Statement

A Yale Western Americana paperbound ; YW 1

Uniform Title

Yale Western Americana paperbound ; YW-1.

Subject

• Geiger, Vincent, 1823 or 1824-1869
• Bryarly, Wakeman, 1820-1869
• 1848-1945
• Overland journeys to the Pacific > History > 19th century
• Overland journeys to the Pacific
• California National Historic Trail > Biography
• West (U.S.) > History > 1848-1860
• West (U.S.) > History > 1860-1890
• West (U.S.) > History > 1890-1945
• États-Unis (Ouest) > Histoire > 1848-1860
• États-Unis (Ouest) > Histoire > 1860-1890
• États-Unis (Ouest) > Histoire > 1890-1945
• West United States
• geschiedenis
• history
• beschrijvingen
• descriptions
• california
• westelijke staten van de vs
• western states of usa
• reisverslagen
• travel reports
• Historical Source Material, America
• Geschiedkundig bronnenmateriaal, Amerika

Genre/Form

• History
• Biographies.

Note

• Published under the direction of the Department of history from the income of the Frederick John Kingsbury memorial fund.
• "The diary ... is one of some fifty manuscript overland journals which form a part of the William Robertson Coe collection of western Americana ... Yale University Library."
• "Constitution of the Charlestown, Virginia, mining company": p. [213]-222.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [233]-245.

Contents

Preface to the 1945 edition -- Preface to the 1962 edition -- Map of the route -- Introduction -- St. Joseph to Fort Kearney -- Fort Kearney to Fort Laramie -- Fort Laramie to South Pass -- South Pass to Fort Hall -- Fort Hall to the sink of the Humboldt -- Across the desert and over the Sierra.

OCLC

• ocm04748114
• 4748114
• SCSB-190394

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library