Manly tells his life from a boyhood in the Green Mountains of Vermont to the California gold fields, but the heart of the book is the winter of 1849. A party of men, women and children who took a supposed shortcut found themselves stranded in a waterless desert valley, and Manly and a companion walked hundreds of miles to bring back help.
A classic of overland survival, and the account that gave Death Valley its name. Download the free EPUB.