登入選單
返回Google圖書搜尋
Love Letters to Missouri--a Kept Promise
Samuel Matthias Ayres
出版Virtualbookworm Publishing, 2006
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / HistoricalBiography & Autobiography / Medical (incl. Patients)Literary Collections / LettersTravel / United States / West / General
ISBN15893986379781589398634
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=sG-Wqv12vvEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBookSAMPLE
註釋"Love Letters from Missouri" is a human interest story of a young Missouri doctor, Dr. Samuel Ayres, who joined the general exodus of 1850 to the gold fields of California in the pursuit of riches. As promised to his wife, Samuel faithfully writes letters describing his day-to-day adventures of the trail, including brief encounters with Indians, successful treatment of numerous chases of cholera along the Platte river between Fort Kearney and Fort Laramie, and celebrating the third anniversary of the establishment of the Great City of Salt Lake. Frequently he mentions his loneliness and heartbreak being away from his wife Priscilla and their two small boys, of concern for his own personal safety and of his extreme disappointment in the deteriorated conditions and lack of opportunities found in California on his arrival. Following only one actual day of labor in the gold fields, Dr. Ayres succumbed to illness and tragically dies November 19, 1850, six months and one week after his departure from his Missouri wife and family.