A peculiarly American romance, including exciting buffalo hunts, extraordinary feats of survival, daring rescues, thrilling chases, desperate Indian fights, and other exhilarating events incident toOverland travel to California in 1852. Librarian David P. Robrock discovered this long-lost truthful book (McMoran & Company, San Francisco, 1856) in an unnamed historical archive, when researching the diaries of travelers to the West in the 1840s and 1850s. Rescued and reprinted in 2020.