William Perkins's Journal of Life at Sonora, 1849-1852 opens a vivid, ground-level window onto the California Gold Rush that few Forty-niner narratives even attempt. Where most memoirs climax at landfall, Perkins "opens up like a flower in the sun" only after reaching...
William Perkins's Journal of Life at Sonora, 1849-1852 opens a vivid, ground-level window onto the California Gold Rush that few Forty-niner narratives even attempt. Where most memoirs climax at landfall, Perkins "opens up like a flower in the sun" only after reaching...