The author of ‘Death Valley in ’49,’ William Lewis Manly, was born on April 6, 1820, in St. Albans, Vermont. Manly would go on to become a key figure in one of the most harrowing survival stories of the California Gold Rush, a journey he later documented in vivid detail. On January 1, 1850, Manly, then 29, and fellow traveler ...

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