Dr. Parke had more to say than most contemporary diarists about the journey across northern Illinois, Iowa, northern Missouri, and beyond South Pass, Wyoming. Unlike most gold rushers, he continued his diary amid the gaudy attractions of California. His entries reflect on the scenery, hardships, squabbles, deaths, and much more; less typical was the space he gave to women on the trail, to Indians, and to life in the mining camps and towns of California. When his luck did not pan out in the gold fields he was one of the few to return east by way of Mexico and Nicaragua. The portion of his diary dealing with Nicaragua is rare for its personal glimpses of social and political conditions in that country in 1850.
In his introduction Davis sets Parke’s great venture in its historical and social context; his afterword fills in the doctor’s later life. Davis’s annotations to the diary elaborate on the people, places, and conditions the doctor encountered.
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