Reminicences [sic] of a trip from Georgia to California and back : from 1849 to 1851: typescript with holograph annotations, [June 1906].

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Reminicences [sic] of a trip from Georgia to California and back : from 1849 to 1851: typescript with holograph annotations, [June 1906].

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Account of his overland journey to California with a wagon train led by Emanuel Hooker; stopover in Salt Lake City; meeting John D. Lee; Mormons and Mormonism; experiences with Indians, especially with the Digger Indians; cholera and other hardships of the Southern route; arrival in California at Isaac Williams's ranch; description of Los Angeles and travels north to the mines; mining at Weber's Creek near Placerville; gambling in the mines and running a saloon; San Francisco; return to Georgia, going across Nicaragua to Chagres and thence to New Orleans; service in the Civil War; and life in Georgia after the war. With this, as v. 2: Westward Ho - in '49: Memoirs of Captain Thomas S. Wylly, carbon typescript of material in volume 1, prepared for publication, with notes and biographical information supplied by his grandson, Thomas S. Wylly, III. Copies of photographs and maps inserted.

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Hooker, Emanuel, 1815-

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Lee, John D. (John Doyle), 1812-1877

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Mormon pioneer and author who was convicted of complicity in the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857. From the description of Letter, 1852. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145435795 From the description of John D. Lee trial transcript, 1875. (Utah Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122480862 Mormon pioneer. From the description of Petition, 1853. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367398504 From the description of Collection, 1841-1876. (Utah His...

Wylly, Thomas Spalding, 1831-1922.

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Thomas Spalding Wylly (1831-1922) was born and raised in coastal Georgia. As an adolescent he read Fremont's accounts of his exploits in the West and resolved to go there himself. His grandfather, Thomas Spalding, was a rich and powerful man who knew Fremont's father-in-law, Thomas Hart Benton. Spalding arranged for Wylly to meet Fremont at Benton's home in Indepen-dence, Missouri. When, in the spring of 1849, Wylly arrived at Independence, he found a cholera epidemic raging and both Ben-ton and...