Marsha Clark

Hundreds of 1800s gold rush diaries and journals have been published that shed light on many aspects of the world-changing events of that time. Thousands of letters shared in community newspapers during that era are now included in libraries or are found on family heritage websites. The following books offer a greater understanding of that […]

Now that the Clark Memoir, Enterprising Young Men, has you wanting to learn more about the western frontier and when the world rushed in for gold, the following recommended resources may interest you! To begin, consider a few pre-1849 books about the early fur trappers and indigenous people that established ways west, from Kentucky to Missouri,