Tapping a veritable wagon train of sources, Will Bagley takes Western enthusiasts along on a trek whereupon they can vicariously suffer daunting travails, polluted water, overgrazing, cholera epidemics on every humbug cutoff until, at last, they (settlers, that is) perhaps die. Each year told a different story: 30,000 crossed in 1849, 50,000 in 1850, a trickle in 1851 and 70,000 in 1852. In With Golden Visions Bright Before Them, readers learn how California made the West. This golden land â€
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