Two kinds of illness set Alonzo Delano on the path to California in 1849: a bodily sickness that his doctor said would improve in the West...and GOLD FEVER.In o

"The discovery of gold in California began an emigration movement across the plains the like of which has been rarely seen. It also resulted in a flood of memoi

During the California gold rush, 300,000 prospectors flocked to California in the hopes of making it rich. Among them was Alonzo Delano, who set out alone at th

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