12 books found
by Katherine Margaret (O'Brien) Cook, Ambrose Caliver, David Segel, Ellen Celia Lombard, Frederick James Kelly, John Ward Studebaker, Severin Kazimierz Turosienski, United States. Office of Education, Walter Sylvanus Deffenbaugh, Chester S. Willliams, John Hamilton McNeely, Ward W Keesecker
1935
David Leeper (1832-1900) left South Bend, Indiana, for an overland trip to the California gold fields in February 1849. The argonauts of forty-nine (1894) details Leeper's journey west and his life in California, 1849-1854: prospecting at Redding's Diggings, Hangtown, and the Trinity River; lumbering around Eureka; and early Sacramento and Humboldt Bay. Leeper shows special interest in the Digger Indians, illustrating the book with sketches of tribal garb in his personal collection.
by Euclid, James Bryce, David Munn (F.R.S.E.)
1874
Contains descriptions on mining techniques, personal interactions, transportation, crime, holidays, hotels and restaurants, entertainment of the social life of the era and the growth of California. It is focused on his experiences and encounters with gold camps such as Sacramento, Coloma, Nevada City, Placerville, Downieville, Jacksonville, San Andreas, and Sonora.