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"James Chisholm was a staff writer For The Chicago Tribune sent to report on the gold strike made in the late 1860s at one of the great historical features of the continent?South Pass on the western trails. His journal, illustrated by himself, Is a graceful, observant narrative full of the real essence of frontier mining camp life."?Library Journal. "Chisholm had a lively sense of humor, An engaging frankness, and a fine eye for landscape. He was also a candid social critic."?Rocky Mountain News. "Lovers of the Old West will buy Chisholm's Journal and never part with it."?Pacific Historical Review. "If South Pass failed to produce gold in the paying quantities James Chisholm's miners thought it would, Chisholm himself produced finer, more lasting gold in his journal account of Wyoming's short-lived gold rush. His journal exudes the smell of sagebrush and scenic panoramas, Of torrential rain storms and night packing, Of being small in a big land, and of honest, earthy people who, In business-like fashion, went about the task of risking life, limb, health, and what small fortunes they had, To hit the big one. Chisholm sees with unpretentious eyes. His is an honest appraisal from a detached journalist, leavened with self-effacing humor. His prose is clean and clear. it can be read aloud and remembered."?Charles E. Rankin, editor of Montana the Magazine of Western History. Lola M. Homsher was director of the Wyoming State Archives and Historical Department.
Ernest de Massey was the younger son of a well-to-do French family that sailed to America and the Gold Rush in the spring of 1849. He eventually settled in San Francisco, where he lived until his return to Europe in 1857. A Frenchman in the gold rush (1927) is a translation of de Massey's journal covering his voyage to California, gold mining on the Trinity River, 1850, and visits to San José, Santa Cruz, and San Juan Bautista; and his career as a San Francisco businessman and journalist, 1850-1851.
Hazelet's Journal is a remarkable true American story not only about a man and his family but about a restless nation finding its way into the twentieth century. An insight into those that came before us.
William Shape's dramatic journal and accompanying photographs give a human dimension to the journey undertaken by vast hordes of prospectors who headed north during the Klondike gold rush of the late 1890s. This previously unpublished diary was compiled by a man with a keen photographer's eye and an author's attention to detail.
"One of the most vivid and best written gold rush journals we have ever handled." -- Christie's Auction House. "All the world appears to be going that way," wrote Daniel Jenks. It was the mid-nineteenth-century craze and scramble for gold that pulled many to California. Countless amateur treasure seekers making the treacherous trek there from all corners of the globe. Jenks was one of these, pulled by the gravity of gold from a peaceful and prosperous Pawtucket Rhode Island life. Yet the true treasure of Jenks' travels, toil, trials and triumphs turned out to be the journals that he meticulously wrote and kept along the way, chronicling his Odyssey over oceans and earth in search of wealth and adventure. Daniel's journey begins with a treacherous and tedious eight-month ocean voyage southward, passenger aboard a ship rounding Cape Horn on its harrowing horseshoe course toward California. There, Jenks finds he's traded shoals and other sea hazards for the land-shark-infested tent villages of gold-rush San Francisco. "Imagine a town built of cloth," writes Jenks. In this "sink of iniquity," he continues, "murders, robberies and thefts are everyday affairs. Bowie knives, revolvers and pistols of all kinds are part of a man's daily apparel. Men die in their tents unknown and uncared for, friendless and alone. This is truly a perfect Sodom" Join Daniel Jenks as he details and documents his experiences during this extraordinary chapter in American history, a tale delivered to us in the Argonaut's own words, rich in the color and singular culture of these gold-rush boomtowns. The Jenks Journals are an epic poem of the pioneer spirit, steeped in all its hope and triumph, hubris and folly. A cautionary and celebratory tale of the restless traveler and the American push westward. A literary treasure, buried in the archives for over 150 years. Now, you can finally read Daniel's untold tales of gold rush adventure as a complete narrative. Includes both California & Colorado gold rushes. Original journals sold in 2012 for $185,000. Over 600 pages. Never before published. Easy reading format. Go West, young man! With Daniel Jenks.
A diary account of 14-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon after losing his wife and money on their steamship journey from New York. Includes an historical note. Originally published with Scholastic's Dear America series, "Seeds of Hope" shares characters from "Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell, 1847."
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Stephen Chapin Davis (1833-1856) and his brother left Nashua, New Hampshire, to act as agents for local merchants in Gold Rush California. Before he was done, young Davis crossed Panama four times in the period June 1850-May 1854. California gold rush merchant (1956) prints Davis's journal entries from the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library. Highlights include his Panama crossings; descriptions of Marysville, Long Bar, Coulterville, Stockton, and San Francisco; and a side trip to Oregon. His business interests included both general stores and a boardinghouse in mining camps.