Description Danger, hardship, and isolation could not turn back the tide of men and women who thirsted for yellow metal.
He coedited (with Ann Hafen) Journal of Forty-niners: Salt Lake to Los Angeles and edited Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West: Eighteen Biographical Sketches and Trappers of the Far West: Sixteen Biographical Sketches, all available in Bison Books editions..
Hafen published more than forty books on the American West.
About the Author Le Roy R.
The Pike\'s Peak Gold rushers provide firsthand accounts of the dangers and rewards of overland travel, as they sought ephemeral fortunes in the Rocky Mountain West.
In the words of these single-minded adventurers, larger-than-life characters mingle with the awesome, terrible beauty of the Great Plains and the sparse comforts of the old Middle West.
The diarists who came along the Arkansas and Platte Rivers and along trails from Texas, Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois created records of the landscapes and peoples they encountered as they journeyed.
Hafen has collected invaluable Pike\'s Peak Gold rush diaries chronicling the struggles, dreams, and heartaches of those who traveled the overland routes to untold riches.
In this volume, noted western historian Le Roy R.
The Pike\'s Peak Gold rush of 1859 attracted as many Gold seekers as the more famous California Gold rush of the previous decade.
Description Danger, hardship, and isolation could not turn back the tide of men and women who thirsted for yellow metal
