Ho for the Gold Fields

by Helen White

Book Overview

Between 1862 and 1867, eight wagon trains carrying at least 1,400 people set out from Minnesota for the gold fields of Montana. These carefully edited letters and diaries trace their progress, revealing their day-to-day experiences, their success--or lack of it--in finding gold, and their lives in bustling mining settlements. "Private dreams of quick fortunes in El Dorado and public dreams of commercial empire and national greatness" moved the emigrants,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873515013
• ISBN13: 9780873515016
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
• Length: 329 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 9.9"