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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 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 first-hand 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.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Adventures of a Forty-niner" (An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days) by Daniel Knower. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Edward M. Steel has integrated other sources with Heiskell's story to provide a broader overview of the gold rush days. His prologue introduces readers to young Heiskell's background, explains how wagon trains operated, and describes the country that the Forty-niners crossed. His careful annotations, meanwhile, shed light on specific points in the diary.
With a solid English education behind him, John Hudson at age twenty-two was offered a job with his uncle at an import agency in New York City. He left Liverpool in 1849, became acquainted with Manhattan, and realized that poor economic conditions portended hard times. So he convinced his uncle to finance a trip to the California gold fields. Although his destination was the west coast, illness forced a stop-over in Salt Lake City.His reprieve lengthened into sixteen months as he joined the Mormon church and taught school at Fort Utah, where he also began serving with the volunteer militia in defending against Ute Indians. He was then hired by Captain Howard Stansbury to help survey the Great Salt Lake. During this three-month exploration, Hudson kept a journal and made sketches of points of interest. Afterwards he hired out as a clerk to a local justice of the peace.Soon he was chosen to help strengthen the new Mormon settlement of Manti in Sanpete Valley, over a hundred miles south of Salt Lake City, where he again became ill and succumbed to pneumonia in December 1850. Though he died young, his writings and sketches are a significant contribution to Western history, especially for understanding early Utah.
Drawing upon more than one hundred unpublished diaries, Schultz profiles the individuals who embarked on these journeys and demonstrates how markedly the gold rush voyages differed from general commercial trading and whaling ventures."--BOOK JACKET.
In Volunteer Forty-Niners, Walter T. Durham provides the first comprehensive examination of the role Tennessee and Tennesseans played in creating a new state and a new society on the West Coast. Drawing from such archival sources as personal narratives in letters and diaries, public records, and newspaper reports, Durham has woven a wealth of information into his recounting of their adventures.
With Volume 2 of Legacies of the Turf II Edward Bowen focuses on the men whose horses have dominated racing in the last half of the 20th century and into the 21st. He has woven together a rich tapestry of horse racing lore.