William L. Manly

William Lewis Manly (St. Albans, Vermont, 1820, 6 April, - Lodi, California, 1903) is a American pioneer of the mid-nineteenth century. He was first a fur hunter, a guide of Westward bound caravans, a seeker of gold, then a farmer and writer in his later years. He wrote his own autobiography, first published with the title From Vermont to California, then a second edition with the title Death Valley in '49, that tells of the Pioneer conquest of America's Far …