Death Valley In 49

Author : William Lewis Manly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : History
ISBN : HARVARD:32044055070965

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William Lewis Manly (1820-1903) and his family left Vermont in 1828, and he grew to manhood in Michigan and Wisconsin. On hearing the news of gold in California, Manly set off on horseback, joining an emigrant party in Missouri. Death Valley in '49 (1894) contains Manly's account of that overland journey. Setting out too late in the year to risk a northern passage thorugh the Sierras, the group takes the southern route to California, unluckily choosing an untried short cut through the mountains. This fateful decision brings the party through Death Valley, and Manly describes their trek through the desert, as well as the experiences of the Illinois "Jayhawkers" and others who took the Death Valley route. Manly's memoirs continue with his trip north to prospecting near the Mariposa mines, a brief trip back east via the Isthmus, and his return to California and another try at prospecting on the North Fork of the Yuba at Downieville in 1851. He provides lively ancedotes of life in mining camps and of his visits to Stockton, Sacramento, and San Francisco.

Author : Manly William Lewis
Publisher : Double 9 Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9358019948

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Death Valley In '49 by Manly William Lewis Pdf

William Lewis Manly wrote a book titled "Death Valley in '49" that details his harrowing expedition to Death Valley in California in 1849. Manly was among a group of prospectors that traveled to California during the gold rush in search of their fortune. However, because of their guide's poor choices, they ended up stranded in Death Valley and had to deal with severe hardships like a lack of food and water. Manly took command of the situation and emerged as the party's leader. He led the group through the mountains to safety, where they were able to get assistance and make their way back to civilization. Their adventures in Death Valley are vividly described in "Death Valley in '49," which emphasizes the terrain's challenges and the group's survival problems. The book is regarded as an essential primary source for comprehending the history of the American West and has grown to be a classic of American Western literature. It has been read and researched extensively, and it has contributed to the development of the American frontier myth.

Author : William Lewis Manly
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781510700338

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Death Valley in '49 by William Lewis Manly Pdf

A survivor’s true account of death, despair, and heroism in Death Valley in the heat of the California Gold Rush. At the height of the California gold rush in 1849, a wagon train of men, women, children, and their animals stumbled into a 130-mile-long valley in the Mojave Desert while they were looking for a shortcut to the California coast. What ensued was an ordeal that divided the camp into remnants and struck them with hunger, thirst, and a terrible sense of being lost beyond hope—until a twenty-nine-year-old hero volunteered to cross the desert to get help. This young hero, William Lewis Manly, was one of the survivors of the tragedy, and he lived to tell the tale forty-five years later in this gripping autobiography, first published in 1894. In a time of unmarked frontiers and wilderness, Manly lived the true life of a pioneer. After being hit by gold rush fever Manly joined the fateful wagon train that would get swallowed up by the barren, arid, hostile valley with its dry and waterless terrain, unearthly surface of white salts, and overwhelming heat. Assaulted and devastated by the elements, members of the camp killed their emaciated oxen for food, ran out of water, split up, and lost and buried their own kind who perished. When Manly’s remaining band of ten came across a rare water hole, he and a companion, John Rogers, left the rest by the water and crossed the treacherous Panamint Mountains and Mojave Desert by themselves in search for rescue. In a true act of heroism against all odds, the two finally returned twenty-five days later with help, rescuing their compatriots, including four children, even when it seemed all hope was lost. Told at the end of the nineteenth century, Manly’s compelling and stirring account brings alive to modern-day readers the unimaginable hardships of America’s brave pioneers, and a chapter in Californian history that should not be forgotten.

Author : William Lewis Manly,John Steven McGroarty
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1494136058

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Death Valley in '49 by William Lewis Manly,John Steven McGroarty Pdf

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1894 Edition.

Author : William L. Manly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0781250633

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Death Valley in '49 by William L. Manly Pdf

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Author : William Lewis Manly
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547511540

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Death Valley in '49. Important chapter of California pioneer history by William Lewis Manly Pdf

"Death Valley in '49. Important chapter of California pioneer history" by William Lewis Manly. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Milkyway Media
Publisher : Milkyway Media
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Summary of William Lewis Manly's Death Valley in '49 by Milkyway Media Pdf

Get the Summary of William Lewis Manly's Death Valley in '49 in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Death Valley in '49" is an autobiographical account by William Lewis Manly, detailing his experiences during the California Gold Rush. Born into a modest farming family, Manly's early life was characterized by hard work and self-reliance. In 1829, his family moved westward to Michigan, where they continued farming...

Author : Lewis William Manly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1428085289

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Death Valley In '49 by Lewis William Manly Pdf

Author : LeRoy Johnson,Jean Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015025328439

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Escape from Death Valley by LeRoy Johnson,Jean Johnson Pdf

Author : Richard E. Lingenfelter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1988-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0520908880

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Death Valley and the Amargosa by Richard E. Lingenfelter Pdf

This is the history of Death Valley, where that bitter stream the Amargosa dies. It embraces the whole basin of the Amargosa from the Panamints to the Spring Mountains, from the Palmettos to the Avawatz. And it spans a century from the earliest recollections and the oldest records to that day in 1933 when much of the valley was finally set aside as a National Monument. This is the story of an illusory land, of the people it attracted and of the dreams and delusions they pursued-the story of the metals in its mountains and the salts in its sinks, of its desiccating heat and its revitalizing springs, and of all the riches of its scenery and lore-the story of Indians and horse thieves, lost argonauts and lost mine hunters, prospectors and promoters, miners and millionaires, stockholders and stock sharps, homesteaders and hermits, writers and tourists. But mostly this is the story of the illusions-the illusions of a shortcut to the gold diggings that lured the forty-niners, of inescapable deadliness that hung in the name they left behind, of lost bonanzas that grew out of the few nuggets they found, of immeasurable riches spread by hopeful prospectors and calculating con men, and of impenetrable mysteries concocted by the likes of Scotty. These and many lesser illusions are the heart of its history.

Author : Jean Johnson
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781943859788

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Grit and Gold by Jean Johnson Pdf

No other Western settlement story is more famous than the Donner Party’s ill-fated journey through the Sierra Nevada Mountains. But a few years later and several hundred miles south, another group faced a similar situation just as perilous. Scrupulously researched and documented, Grit and Gold tells the story of the Death Valley Jayhawkers of 1849 and the young men who traveled by wagon and foot from Iowa to the California gold rush. The Jayhawkers’ journey took them through the then uncharted and unnamed hottest, driest, lowest spot in the continent—now aptly known as Death Valley. After leaving Salt Lake City to break a road south to the Pacific Coast that would eliminate crossing the snowy Sierra Nevada, the party veered off the Old Spanish Trail in southern Utah to follow a mountaineer’s map portraying a bogus trail that claimed to cut months and hundreds of miles off their route to the gold country. With winter coming, however, they found themselves hopelessly lost in the mountains and dry valleys of southern Nevada and California. Abandoning everything but the shirts on their backs and the few oxen that became their pitiful meals, they turned their dreams of gold to hopes of survival. Utilizing William Lorton’s 1849 diary of the trek from Illinois to southern Utah, the reminiscences of the Jayhawkers themselves, the keen memory of famed pioneer William Lewis Manly, and the almost daily diary of Sheldon Young, Johnson paints a lively but accurate portrait of guts, grit, and determination.

Author : William Lewis Manly,John Steven McGroarty
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1498115659

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Death Valley in '49 by William Lewis Manly,John Steven McGroarty Pdf

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1894 Edition.

Author : William Lewis Manly
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1377514056

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Death Valley in '49 by William Lewis Manly Pdf

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Author : William Lewis Manly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : California
ISBN : OCLC:150518303

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Death Valley in '49 ... by William Lewis Manly Pdf

Author : William Lewis Manly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1096807412

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Death Valley in '49 by William Lewis Manly Pdf