"The discovery of gold in California began an emigration movement across the plains the like of which has been rarely seen. It also resulted in a flood of memoi

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 o

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

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