The Diary of a Forty-Niner. (Edited) by Chauncey L. Canfield
Author : Chauncey L. Canfield
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Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,44 MB
Release : 1906
Category : California
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Author : Chauncey L. Canfield
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Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,44 MB
Release : 1906
Category : California
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Author : Chauncey L. Canfield
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,94 MB
Release : 1920
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Author : Chauncey L. Canfield
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Page : 280 pages
File Size : 18,88 MB
Release : 1906
Category : California
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Chauncey de Leon Canfield (1843-1909) first published "The diary of a forty-niner" in 1906, and 1,200 of the 2,000 copies in that edition were burned. Joseph Gaer's Bibliography of California literature, 20 describes this book as written in the form of a diary, but fictional.' The diary of a forty-niner (1920) reprints Canfield's 1906 publication. It purports to be the diary of Alfred T. Jackson, of Litchfield County, Connecticut, during his days as a gold prospector, 1850-1852. Jackson offers firsthand accounts of Nevada City and neighboring Rock Creek; descriptions of Grass Valley, North and South Yuba Valleys, and the Sierra Mountains; details of gold mining with accounts of pioneer overland crossings, and foreign mineworkers (including Chinese). Entries concerning Jackson's personal life include details of his courtship of a French woman in the camps.
Author : Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
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Page : pages
File Size : 50,90 MB
Release : 1920
Category : California
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Chauncey de Leon Canfield (1843-1909) first published "The diary of a forty-niner" in 1906, and 1,200 of the 2,000 copies in that edition were burned. Joseph Gaer's Bibliography of California literature, 20 describes this book as written in the form of a diary, but fictional.' The diary of a forty-niner (1920) reprints Canfield's 1906 publication. It purports to be the diary of Alfred T. Jackson, of Litchfield County, Connecticut, during his days as a gold prospector, 1850-1852. Jackson offers firsthand accounts of Nevada City and neighboring Rock Creek; descriptions of Grass Valley, North and South Yuba Valleys, and the Sierra Mountains; details of gold mining with accounts of pioneer overland crossings, and foreign mineworkers (including Chinese). Entries concerning Jackson's personal life include details of his courtship of a French woman in the camps.
Author : Alfred T. Jackson
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Page : 262 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 1920
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Author : Newberry Library
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 14,25 MB
Release : 1968-11
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780226775791
The Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana consists of some 10,000 books, manuscripts, maps, pamphlets, broadsides, broadsheets, and photographs, of which about half are described in the present catalogue. The Graff Collection displays the remarkable breadth of interest, knowledge, and taste of a great bibliophile and student of Western American history. From this rich collection, now in The Newberry Library, Chicago, its former Curator, Colton Storm, has compiled a discriminating and representative Catalogue of the rarer and more unusual materials. Collectors, bibliographers, librarians, historians, and book dealers specializing in Americana will find the Graff Catalogue an interesting and essential tool. Detailed collations and binding descriptions are cited, and many of the more important works have been annotated by Mr. Graff and Mr. Storm. An extensive index of persons and subjects makes the book useful to the scholar as well as to the collector and dealer. The book is not a bibliography but rather a guide to rare or unique source materials now enriching The Newberry Library's outstanding holdings in American history.
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Page : 634 pages
File Size : 35,94 MB
Release : 1907
Category : California
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Author : Providence Public Library (R.I.)
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Page : 496 pages
File Size : 29,10 MB
Release : 1920
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Author : James J. Rawls
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 28,84 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780806120201
Describes changing white views of native California Indians as Spanish victims, useful laborers, and, finally, obstacles to white expansion
Author : John Boessenecker
Publisher : Thomas Dunne Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 17,6 MB
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1250184886
The true stories of the Wild West heroes who guarded the iconic Wells Fargo stagecoaches and trains, battling colorful thieves, vicious highwaymen, and robbers armed with explosives. The phrase "riding shotgun" was no teenage game to the men who guarded stagecoaches and trains the Western frontier. Armed with sawed-off, double-barreled shotguns and an occasional revolver, these express messengers guarded valuable cargo through lawless terrain. They were tough, fighting men who risked their lives every time they climbed into the front boot of a Concord coach. Boessenecker introduces soon-to-be iconic personalities like "Chips" Hodgkins, an express rider known for his white mule and his ability to outrace his competitors, and Henry Johnson, the first Wells Fargo detective. Their lives weren't just one shootout after another—their encounters with desperadoes were won just as often with quick wits and memorized-by-heart knowledge of the land. The highway robbers also get their due. It wouldn't be a book about the Wild West without Black Bart, the most infamous stagecoach robber of all time, and Butch Cassidy's gang, America's most legendary train robbers. Through the Gold Rush and the early days of delivery with horses and saddlebags, to the heyday of stagecoaches and huge shipments of gold, and finally the rise of the railroad and the robbers who concocted unheard-of schemes to loot trains, Wells Fargo always had courageous men to protect its treasure. Their unforgettable bravery and ingenuity make this book a thrilling read.