Jan’s Reviews > Death Valley in '49 > Status Update

This is a very readable memoir of a trip west from Wisconsin to California. The author recounts traveling with a small wagon train, leaving women and children behind as he and another young man scouted the way across Death Valley to Los Angeles, then back to get the others and back across again. The details are interesting, the situations harrowing and believable. I just visited Death Valley and can picture it all!