Thrilling narrative of the adventures, sufferings and starvation of Pike's Peak gold seekers on the Plains of the West in the Winter and Spring of 1859 / by one of the survivorsBlue, Daniel1859 May 121860Daniel Blue, too weak to write, dictated a letter to Alexander Pullman. It describes his attempted trip to Pike’s Peak from Whiteside County, Illinois by way of Kansas City, Fort Riley, and Smoky Hill Fork. He records the hardships, deaths, cannibalism, and rescue by Indians.Accompanied by 6 pages of a corrected page proof from the second printing of Blue’s Narrative.text