A pioneer of 1850, George Willis Read, 1819-1880 ; the record of a journey overland from Independence, Missouri, to Hangtown (Placerville), California, in the spring of 1850, with a letter from the diggings in October of the same year and an account of a journey from New York to California, via Panama, in 1862, capture by the Confederate raider Alabama, etc., and a visit to the Nevada silver mining district in 1863 / edited by Georgia Willis Read. Illustrated from old prints.