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- catalog abstract "With a high sense of adventure and even higher hope of profit, Dr. Charles Ross Parke joined the gold seekers streaming toward California in the spring of 1849. A resident of Whiteside County, Illinois, he formed a small company and headed west to the Great Platte River Road. Other forty-niners kept diaries of daily events on the trail, but Dr. Parke's is unusual in its scope and detail. Edited, annotated, and published for the first time, this book reveals an anthropologist's curiosity about Indians and their culture, a young man's eye for the ladies, a sociologist's sense of the roles people play, a politician's instincts for the art of governance, and a doctor's view of the cholera pandemic along the trail. Dr. Parke had more to say than most contemporary diarists about the journey across northern Illinois, Iowa, northern Missouri, and beyond South Pass. Unlike most gold rushers, he continued his diary amid the gaudy attractions of California. When his luck did not pan out in the gold fields he was one of the few to return east by way of Mexico and Nicaragua. The portion of his diary dealing with Nicaragua is rare for its personal glimpses of social and political conditions in that country in 1850. -- from Book Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b2691055.
- catalog contributor b2691056.
- catalog coverage "California Description and travel.".
- catalog coverage "California Gold discoveries.".
- catalog coverage "West (U.S.) Description and travel.".
- catalog created "c1989.".
- catalog date "1989".
- catalog date "c1989.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1989.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-271)".
- catalog description "The overland route -- Charles Ross Parke, M.D. -- Ferry of the Nodaway -- Nodaway Mill -- Pawnee village -- Fort Childs of New Fort Kearney -- Port of Realjo -- Street view of Leon -- Cathedral of St. Peter, Leon -- St. Joseph's Hospital, Bloomington -- Charles Ross Parke, M.D.".
- catalog description "With a high sense of adventure and even higher hope of profit, Dr. Charles Ross Parke joined the gold seekers streaming toward California in the spring of 1849. A resident of Whiteside County, Illinois, he formed a small company and headed west to the Great Platte River Road. Other forty-niners kept diaries of daily events on the trail, but Dr. Parke's is unusual in its scope and detail. Edited, annotated, and published for the first time, this book reveals an anthropologist's curiosity about Indians and their culture, a young man's eye for the ladies, a sociologist's sense of the roles people play, a politician's instincts for the art of governance, and a doctor's view of the cholera pandemic along the trail. Dr. Parke had more to say than most contemporary diarists about the journey across northern Illinois, Iowa, northern Missouri, and beyond South Pass. Unlike most gold rushers, he continued his diary amid the gaudy attractions of California. When his luck did not pan out in the gold fields he was one of the few to return east by way of Mexico and Nicaragua. The portion of his diary dealing with Nicaragua is rare for its personal glimpses of social and political conditions in that country in 1850. -- from Book Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xxxi, 280 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Dreams to dust.".
- catalog identifier "0803236743 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Dreams to dust.".
- catalog issued "1989".
- catalog issued "c1989.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,".
- catalog relation "Dreams to dust.".
- catalog spatial "California Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "California Gold discoveries.".
- catalog spatial "California".
- catalog spatial "West (U.S.) Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "West (U.S.)".
- catalog subject "978/.02/0924 19".
- catalog subject "F593 .P28 1989".
- catalog subject "Overland journeys to the Pacific.".
- catalog subject "Parke, Charles Ross, 1823-1860 Diaries.".
- catalog subject "Parke, Charles Ross, 1823-1908 Diaries.".
- catalog subject "Pioneers California Diaries.".
- catalog subject "Pioneers West (U.S.) Diaries.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The overland route -- Charles Ross Parke, M.D. -- Ferry of the Nodaway -- Nodaway Mill -- Pawnee village -- Fort Childs of New Fort Kearney -- Port of Realjo -- Street view of Leon -- Cathedral of St. Peter, Leon -- St. Joseph's Hospital, Bloomington -- Charles Ross Parke, M.D.".
- catalog title "Dreams to dust : a diary of the California gold rush, 1849-1850 / by Charles Ross Parke ; edited by James E. Davis.".
- catalog type "Diaries. fast".
- catalog type "text".