A TRIP TO
CALIFORNIA IN 1853
BY WASHINGTON BAILEY
Recollections of a gold seeking trip by ox train
across the plains and mountains by an old Illinois pioneer
LeRoy Journal Printing Company
1915
Mr. Bailey was induced by some of his friends to put in writing his recollections of an overland trip made by "prairie schooner" to California, over sixty years ago. These recollections were published in the LeRoy Journal in series, and later collected and reprinted herewith in book form on the solicitation of his friends who desired a permanent record.
Brief Biography Of The Author
Washington Bailey, the author of this narrative of a trip to California in 1853, was born October, 1831, in Adams County, Ohio. Afterwards he, with his parents, came to Fountain County, Indiana, from which place he went to California, returning in 1856 to Cheney's Grove, now Saybrook, Illinois.