William Lewis Manly

William Lewis Manly was born in Vermont in 1820. In the fall of 1848, Manly decided to follow the gold rush to California. This is the trip documented in Death Valley in ?49. Manly moved between California and the East for several years, eventually settling in California, where he mined, married, and settled in San Jose. Manly died in 1903.

Selected Work

Death Valley in ’49

No Place for a Puritan:
The Literature of California’s Deserts