Twelve Years in the Mines of California


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Excerpt from Twelve Years in the Mines of California: Embracing a General View of the Gold Region, With Practical Observations on Hill, Placer, and Quartz Diggings; And Notes on the Origin of Gold Deposits We take pleasure in recommending our esteemed friend and fellow-townsman, L. B. Patterson, to any community in which circumstances may place him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




British Comment on the United States


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This bibliography of more than three thousand entries, often extensively annotated, lists books and pamphlets that illuminate evolving British views on the United States during a period of great change on both sides of the Atlantic. Subjects addressed in various decades include slavery and abolitionism, women's rights, the Civil War, organized labor, economic, cultural, and social behavior, political and religious movements, and the "American" character in general.













Quartz Mining


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