Sortore, Abram:

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BIOGRAPHY AND EARLY LIFE SKETCH OF THE LATE ABRAM SORTORE INCLUDING HIS TRIP TO CALIFORNIA AND BACK. Sortore travelled overland to California in March 1850, starting from Keokuk, Iowa, via the Mormon settlement at Nauvoo, where he arrived "in time to see the smoke and hear the roar of 'Cannon' when the Citizens fired on the Mormons to drive them from Nauvoo." He went through South Pass in the Rockies, and thence to Fort Bridger and Salt Lake, via Carson Lake through the Sierra Nevada to Hangtown. "Sortore and companions mined near Louisville on the South Fork of the American River. Eventually he mined on the South Fork of the Yuba River near Bridgeport. In October 1857, he returned home via Nicaragua" - Kurutz. A detailed account of the journey, with notes on gold digging and the like. Not in Eberstadt, MODERN OVERLANDS. A quite rare privately printed overland.

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