"Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51" by E. S. Ingalls. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Illustrated journal describing overland journey from Iowa to California. Some sketches of California scenes at end of sketchbook.

"Attempting to fill an empty space in western literature, this book then is concerned with the search for and use of the southern overland route to California from the earliest Spanish penetration into the present United States Southwest to 1849, just before the country was inundated, comparitively speaking, by California bound argonauts"--Pref.