Journal of a Trip to California

Journal of a Trip to California
Across the Continent from Weston, Mo., to Weber Creek, Cal., in the Summer of 1850

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Journal of a Trip to California by Charles W. Smith

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Journal of a Trip to California
Across the Continent from Weston, Mo., to Weber Creek, Cal., in the Summer of 1850

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Several years ago I had the good fortune to find, in the lumber and rubbish of a storeroom, this little journal. A small leather-backed notebook, it had lain unnoticed and forgotten for more than half a century in the author's old homestead.The original manuscript is written in a 4 by 6-inch notebook, bound in boards. It contains 180 pages of text, with pressed western flowers and plants pasted on the five fly-leaves at the end.

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e have run upon numerous sand bars, backed out and found other channels; stopped for wood and passengers, and I felt the jarring of the machinery beneath me. A large number of the passengers on board are more or less indisposed, so I have not suffered more than many others. We have passed several respectable towns in coming up, the principal of which are Boonville, Lexington and Independence. The latter is some four miles from the river. We expect to reach St. Joseph tomorrow. There is a report abroad that the cholera prevails at St. Joseph, and some of our passengers are leaving the boat to avoid it. It is also said to prevail at other towns on the river. I shall not deviate from my course on that account. If it is my fate to be stricken down at this time, I shall try to meet my fate like a Christian. But I have hope and a strong belief that--

"There's a divinity that shapes our ends Rough hew them how we will."

APRIL 18.

Weston, Missouri, April 18. We arrived here last Sunday morning, s

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This book covers the trip to California, it is a straight up travel diary. It is good background information if you are interested in that era of American history. I did read passages of it to my daughter so that she could understand the realities of travel before planes, etc.