"James Chisholm was a staff writer for the Chicago Tribune sent to report on the Gold strike made in the late 1860s at one of the great historical features of the continent-South Pass on the western trails.
He was also a candid social critic."-Rocky Mountain N. "Chisholm had a lively sense of humor, an engaging frankness, and a fine eye for landscape.
His journal, illustrated by himself, is a graceful, observant narrative full of the real essence of frontier mining camp life."-Library Journal. "James Chisholm was a staff writer for the Chicago Tribune sent to report on the Gold strike made in the late 1860s at one of the great historical features of the continent-South Pass on the western trails