CALIFORNIA: A Trip Across the Plains, in the Spring of 1850
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CALIFORNIA: A Trip Across the Plains, in the Spring of 1850
James Abbey was a member of a traveling party that left New Albany, Indiana, for California in 1850. He kept a day-by-day journal of his overland journey. Abbey provides a wealth of information about what it was like to travel overland by wagon in 1850.