The Newark Overland Company's Trek to California, 1849
by
Margaret Casterline Bowen, Gwendolyn Joslin Hiles
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
When gold fever struck in 1849, John S. Darcy—prominent physician, general, and president of the New Jersey Railroad—assembled a company to travel overland to California. In Jersey Gold, Margaret Casterline Bowen and Gwendolyn Joslin Hiles tell the story of that colorful company of some thirty...