Williamsburg Regional Library

Death Valley in '49, an autobiography of a pioneer who survived the California Desert, by William Lewis Manly

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non fiction

Death Valley in '49

907190444

by William Lewis Manly

an autobiography of a pioneer who survived the California Desert

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

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