Volunteer Forty-Niners: Tennesseans and the California Gold Rush

✍ Scribed by Walter T. Durham

Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Leaves: 456
Edition: 1st
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

In Volunteer Forty-Niners, Walter T. Durham provides the first comprehensive examination of the role Tennessee and Tennesseans played in creating a new state and a new society on the West Coast. Drawing from such archival sources as personal narratives in letters and diaries, public records, and newspaper reports, Durham has woven a wealth of information into his recounting of their adventures.

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