Mexican Gold Trail

The Huntington Library is reprinting some of its regional classics. This fine Gold Rush journal by George W.B. Evans was ably edited by the late Glenn Dumke in 1945. It now bears a new introduction by Peter Blodgett. Dumke began the “rediscovery” of the Gila Trail, largely neglected by historians in 1945. Evans and many others, especially Texas argonauts, preferred this southern route to California. Since its lifeline across the dangerous deserts of New Mexico and Arizona was the Gila Riv