Margaret Casterline Bowen discusses Jersey Gold: The Neward Overland Company's Trek To California, 1849. When gold fever struck in 1849, John S. Darcy--prominent physician, general, and president of the New Jersey Railroad--assembled a company to travel overland to California. In Jersey Gold, Margaret Casterline Bowen and Gwendolyn Joslin Hiles tell the story of that colorful company of some thirty stalwarts and adventurers.
Margaret Casterline Bowen discusses Jersey Gold: The Neward Overland Company's Trek To California, 1849. When gold fever struck in 1849, John S. Darcy--prominent physician, general, and president of the New Jersey Railroad--assembled a company to travel overland to California. In Jersey Gold, Margaret Casterline Bowen and Gwendolyn Joslin Hiles tell the story of that colorful company of some thirty stalwarts and adventurers.
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