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Grit and Gold: The Death Valley Jayhawkers of 1849.
・ISBN 978-1-943859-77-1 hard US$ 34.95
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| 著者・編者 | Johnson, Jean, |
|---|---|
| シリーズ | (Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in Nevada History) |
| 出版社 | (University of Nevada Press, US) |
| 出版年月 | 2018 |
| ページ数 | 416 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜A04-32683＞ |
解説
No other western story is more famous than the Donner Party's ill-fated journey through the Sierra Nevada. But three 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 Illinois 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 into 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.
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 into 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.