Journal of Horace Greeley's journey from New York to San Francisco in 1859. "A champion of numerous causes in the mid-nineteenth century, Horace Greeley is probably best remembered today for the slogan "Go West, young man." As the editor of the New York Tribune, a newspaper which had acquired national influence, Greeley could place his views on any subject before a large audience. For a decade before the Civil War he considered the proposal to construct...