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100 1 Lorton, William B.,|d1828-1892,|0https://id.loc.gov/
authorities/names/no2020044049|eauthor.
245 10 Troubadour on the Road to Gold :|bWilliam B. Lorton's 1849
Journal to California /|cedited by LeRoy Johnson and Jean
Johnson ; with a foreword by Richard Saunders.
263 2104
264 1 Salt Lake City :|bThe University of Utah Press,|c[2020]
264 4 |c©2020
300 1 online resource
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504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 |gPt. I|tGold Rush Overture --|g1.|tNew York City to
Monmouth, Illinois, 1848-1849 --|gpt. II|tOn the Trail:
Western Illinois to Salt Lake City --|g2.|tAcross Iowa to
St. Joseph, Missouri --|g3.|tSt. Joseph to Kanesville,
Iowa --|g4.|tKanesville to Fort Laramie, Wyoming --|g5.
|tFort Laramie to Independence Rock, Utah --|g6.
|tIndependence Rock to Salt Lake City --|gpt. III
|tSouthern Route: Salt Lake City to Pueblo de Los Angeles
--|g7.|tAmong the Mormons at Salt Lake City --|g8.|tSalt
Lake City to Beaver River, Utah --|g9.|tBeaver River to
Mount Misery, Utah --|g10.|tTravails in Terra Incognita --
|g11.|tOld Spanish Trail into Southern California --|g12.
|tCalifornia! --|g13.|tAfterword.
520 "Troubadour on the Road to Gold is a true, western
adventure story with lots of action and rich detail.
William Lorton's spritely, detailed, and insightful
journal is a delight, yet moving at the same time. He
gives insight rarely found in a young man into daily trail
life from the Mississippi River to southern California, by
way of Salt Lake City, in the early gold rush of 1849.
Additional information is added in his letters from the
trail to The New York Sun newspaper. Only a couple other
diarists approach Lorton's deep level of detail about the
Southern Route from SLC to LA. He is an active observer
who exposes the damage done from stampedes, notes
variations among the Indians, feels the pleasure of a
river swim in the hot sun, appreciates a beautiful sunset
or a rampaging hail storm, and he provides entertaining
sketches of locations that interested him. He graphically
describes his disastrous "walkabout" into uncharted Nevada
desert that only four dozen other men experienced before
retreating to the Old Spanish Trail. He reveals his
scientific curiosity in vivid descriptions of a sidewinder
rattle snake, mysteriously moving rocks on a desert playa,
or microscopic fairy shrimp in an ephemeral lake. Lorton
is a likable fellow with a droll sense of humor who
entertains the camp with his rich singing voice and
ability to play the violin. At the same time he can cook,
clean, or chase oxen while being stoic about getting a
foot damaged when trampled in a stampede, having all his
bacon stolen by the Indians, or having to shoot his
faithful horse. He represents the best traits a man can
possess-resilience in adversity, a positive attitude, and
an active participant in the society he finds himself in,
be it a Mormon home or a wagon mess on the trail"--
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600 11 Lorton, William B.,|d1828-1892|vDiaries.
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648 7 1846-1850|2fast
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650 0 Gold mines and mining|zCalifornia|xHistory|y19th century
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651 0 California|xGold discoveries.|0https://id.loc.gov/
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700 1 Johnson, LeRoy,|d1937-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
names/n2001035003|eeditor.
700 1 Johnson, Jean,|d1937-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
names/n85214815|eeditor.
776 08 |iPrint version:|aLorton, William B., 1828-1892.
|tTroubadour on the Road to Gold|dSalt Lake City : The
University of Utah Press, [2020]|z9781607817796|w(DLC)
2020014585
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