Margaret Casterline Bowen Gwendolyn Joslin Hiles Margaret C. Bowen
When gold fever struck in 1849, John S. Darcy prominent physician, general, and president of the New Jersey Railroad assembled a company to travel overland to California. In Jersey Gold, Margaret Casterline Bowen and Gwendolyn Joslin Hiles tell the story of that colorful company of some thirty stalwarts and adventurers. Jersey Gold chronicles the experiences of the New Jersey argonauts from their lives before the gold rush to the widely varying fortunes each ultimately found. Animated by the trekkers own words and observations and illustrated with maps, photographs, and...
When gold fever struck in 1849, John S. Darcy prominent physician, general, and president of the New Jersey Railroad assembled a company to trave...
