Death Valley in '49: An Autobiography of a Pioneer Who

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Death Valley in '49: An Autobiography of a Pioneer Who Survived the California Desert

A survivorâ€™s true account of death, despair, and heroism in Death Valley in the heat of the California Gold Rush.

At the height of the California gold rush in 1849, a wagon train of men, women, children, and their animals stumbled into a 130-mile-long valley in the Mojave Desert while they were looking for a shortcut to the California coast. What ensued was an ordeal that divided the camp into remnants and struck them with hunger, thirst, and a terrible sense of being lost beyond hopeâ€”until a twenty-nine-year-old hero volunteered to cross the desert to get help.

This young hero, William Lewis Manly, was one of the survivors of the tragedy, and he lived to tell the tale forty-five years later in this gripping autobiography, first published in 1894. In a time of unmarked frontiers and wilderness, Manly lived the true life of a pioneer. After being hit by gold rush fever Manly joined the fateful wagon train that would get swallowed up by the barren, arid, hostile valley with its dry and waterless terrain, unearthly surface of white salts, and overwhelming heat. Assaulted and devastated by the elements, members of the camp killed their emaciated oxen for food, ran out of water, split up, and lost and buried their own kind who perished. When Manlyâ€™s remaining band of ten came across a rare water hole, he and a companion, John Rogers, left the rest by the water and crossed the treacherous Panamint Mountains and Mojave Desert by themselves in search for rescue. In a true act of heroism against all odds, the two finally returned twenty-five days later with help, rescuing their compatriots, including four children, even when it seemed all hope was lost.

Told at the end of the nineteenth century, Manlyâ€™s compelling and stirring account brings alive to modern-day readers the unimaginable hardships of Americaâ€™s brave pioneers, and a chapter in Californian history that should not be forgotten.
Country USA
Brand Skyhorse
Manufacturer Skyhorse
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 16 B&W illustrations
ReleaseDate 2016-01-26
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781634504409

Country	USA
Brand	Skyhorse
Manufacturer	Skyhorse
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	16 B&W illustrations
ReleaseDate	2016-01-26
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781634504409

Death Valley in '49: An Autobiography of a Pioneer Who Survived the California Desert

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