Patricia Etter introduced and edited: CALIFORNIA ODYSSEY: AN OVERLAND LOURNEY ON SOUTHERN TRAILS, 1849 by William R. Goulding. Published by the Arthur H. Clark Co. an imprint of the University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. Foreward by Howard R. Lamar. This is an extraordinary first-person account of the gold rush by way of Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. You can find it at wwwahclark.com
Taken from THE WRITE WORD, the newsletter of The Society of Southwestern Authors Vol. 38. No. 5 Oct/Nov. 2009
