Scharmann's overland journey to California
from the pages of a pioneer's diary.
by Hermann B. Scharmann
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Herman Scharmann left Germany as head of a company of gold-seekers bound for California in 1849. Scharmann's overland journey to California (1918) describes his family's journey from New York to their wagon train in Independence, Missouri, and the trip across the Plains via Fort Kearny and Fort Laramie. When his wife and daughter die shortly after reaching California, Scharmann and two sons push ahead to the gold fields at Feather River and Middle Fork, and the American River and Negro Bar. He offers a brutal picture of the exploitation of emigrant parties and of the drudgery of prospecting and of towns like Marysville, Sacramento, and San Francisco, 1849-1851.
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Scharmann's overland journey to California: from the pages of a pioneer's diary.
1969, Books for Libraries Press
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0836950992 9780836950991
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"First published 1918."
Translation of Landreise nach Californien.
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