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Brief Biography Of The Author
CHAPTER I, Uncle Joshua's Visit And Our Preparations ForThe West
CHAPTER II, On The Western Plains—Some Of Our Experiences
CHAPTER III, Among The Foot Hills And Troublesome Indians
CHAPTER IV, Over The Mountains Into California
CHAPTER V, Prospecting For Gold—Some Hard Experiences
ERRATA
APPENDIX
A TRIP TO
CALIFORNIA IN 1853
BY WASHINGTON BAILEY
Recollections of a gold seeking trip by ox train
across the plains and mountains by an old Illinois pioneer
LeRoy Journal Printing Company
1915
Mr. Bailey was induced by someof his friends to put in writing hisrecollections of an overland tripmade by "prairie schooner" to California,over sixty years ago. Theserecollections were published in theLeRoy Journal in series, and latercollected and reprinted herewithin book form on the solicitation ofhis friends who desired a permanentrecord.
Brief Biography Of The Author
Washington Bailey, the author of this narrative of a tripto California in 1853, was born October, 1831, in AdamsCounty, Ohio. Afterwards he, with his parents, came toFountain County, Indiana, from which place he went to California,returning in 1856 to Cheney's Grove, now Saybrook,Illinois.<