Grit and Gold: The Death Valley Jayhawkers of 1849

by Jean Johnson

Book Overview

No other Western settlement story is more famous than the Donner Party's ill-fated journey through the Sierra Nevada Mountains. But a few years later and several hundred miles south, another group faced a similar situation just as perilous. Scrupulously researched and documented, Grit and Gold tells the story of the Death Valley Jayhawkers of 1849 and the young men who traveled by wagon and foot from Iowa to the California gold rush. The Jayhawkers'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1943859779
• ISBN13: 9781943859771
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 10.2"