No other western story is more famous than the Donner Party's ill-fated journey through the Sierra Nevada. But three years later and several hundred miles south, another group faced a similar situation just as perilous. Scrupulously researched and documented, Grit and Gold tells the story of the Death Valley Jayhawkers of 1849.
No other western story is more famous than the Donner Party's ill-fated journey through the Sierra Nevada. But three years later and several hundred m...