Way Sketches, Containing Incidents of Travel Across the Plains
Authors
Charles W. Smith
Abstract
"The publication in book form of Lorenzo Sawyer's Way Sketches is a welcome addition to the literature of the West. The position and importance of this narrative is indicated by the following annotation drawn from Mr. H.R. Wagner's The Plains and the Rockies, page 96: "...[The sketches] form one of the most readable of all the overland narratives of gold rush days that I have read.' The journal covers a trip from St. Joseph, Missouri, to California, dating from May 6 to July 20, 1850."
