TY - BOOK AU - Pancoast,Charles Edward AU - Hannum,Anna Paschall AU - McMaster,John Bach TI - A Quaker Forty-niner: The Adventures of Charles Edward Pancoast on the American Frontier SN - 9781512805413 AV - F593 U1 - 917.8 PY - 2016///] CY - Philadelphia : PB - University of Pennsylvania Press, KW - Overland journeys to the Pacific KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - A dramatic, first-hand account of the pioneering life in the West--steamboating on the Missouri and the gold rush to California UR - https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512805420 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781512805420 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781512805420.jpg ER -