FOSTER, ISAAC G. - "Lost in a Mountain Fastness" /repositories/5/archival_objects/811827 1 folder dates not examined 2 2 Scope and Contents

FOSTER, ISAAC G. - d. ca. 1879. Sept 24, 1849. Typescript, 5 pp. An autobiographical story, "Lost in a Mountain Fastness," details the two-week period in which Foster is lost in the mountains near the Sacramento Valley, is attacked by a bear, encounters Native Americans, suffers near starvation, and is returned to his wagon train.