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A Quaker Forty-niner : The Adventures of Charles Edward Pancoast on the American Frontier / Charles Edward Pancoast; Anna Paschall Hannum.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1930Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (430 p.) : 14 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781512805413
  • 9781512805420
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 917.8
LOC classification:
  • F593
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- I. New Jersey Boyhood -- II. Apprenticeship in Philadelphia -- III. Go West, Young Man -- IV. A Meeting with Lincoln -- V. Lexington: A Visit Home -- VI. Crowded Out of Lexington -- VII. A Tough Frontier Town -- VIII. Ostracism and Murder -- IX. Steamboating on the Osage -- X. Merchants, Soldiers, Gamblers -- XI. Boat and Fortune Wrecked -- XII. Gold Fever -- XIII. Across the Plains -- XIV. Pueblo to Santa Fe -- XV. In New Mexico -- XVI. Over the Continental Divide -- XVII.The American Desert -- XVIII. California and Gold -- XIX. Prospecting and Digging -- XX. A Northward Journey -- XXI. On the Trinity River -- XXII. The Rancho of the Angels -- XXIII. The Great Flood -- XXIV. Sacramento and San Francisco -- XXV. End of the Odyssey -- Conclusion -- Index
Summary: A dramatic, first-hand account of the pioneering life in the West--steamboating on the Missouri and the gold rush to California.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- I. New Jersey Boyhood -- II. Apprenticeship in Philadelphia -- III. Go West, Young Man -- IV. A Meeting with Lincoln -- V. Lexington: A Visit Home -- VI. Crowded Out of Lexington -- VII. A Tough Frontier Town -- VIII. Ostracism and Murder -- IX. Steamboating on the Osage -- X. Merchants, Soldiers, Gamblers -- XI. Boat and Fortune Wrecked -- XII. Gold Fever -- XIII. Across the Plains -- XIV. Pueblo to Santa Fe -- XV. In New Mexico -- XVI. Over the Continental Divide -- XVII.The American Desert -- XVIII. California and Gold -- XIX. Prospecting and Digging -- XX. A Northward Journey -- XXI. On the Trinity River -- XXII. The Rancho of the Angels -- XXIII. The Great Flood -- XXIV. Sacramento and San Francisco -- XXV. End of the Odyssey -- Conclusion -- Index

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A dramatic, first-hand account of the pioneering life in the West--steamboating on the Missouri and the gold rush to California.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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