Alonzo Delano: 2 books
by Alonzo Delano
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Two kinds of illness set Alonzo Delano on the path to California in 1849: a bodily sickness that his doctor said would improve in the West...and GOLD FEVER. In one of the most fascinating pioneer accounts of the "mistakes and sufferings of the emigrants" as well as interactions with Native Americans,...
Life on the Plains and among the Diggings
A Personal Account of a Gold Seeker?s Journey to California
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
During the California gold rush, 300,000 prospectors flocked to California in the hopes of making it rich. Among them was Alonzo Delano, who set out alone at the age of forty-two, leaving his family behind in Illinois, both to seek out new opportunity and because of a doctor’s prescription for a...