Download or read book Beyond the Land of Gold written by Rebecca Valentine and published by Thompson Media. This book was released on 2010 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perry A. Burgess, son of Abram Burgess and Emma Semantha Cheney, was born in 1843 in Nauvoo, Illinois. He married Annie Mapes in 1870. They had three children. He died in 1900 in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.