The / Experiences Of A Forty-Niner / During / Thirty-Four Years Residence / In / California And Australia

Ferguson, Charles D. & Frederick T. Wallace (ed)

Edité par Williams Pub. Co; Cleveland, Oh; 507 pp.; ; VG-; 1888/1888, 1888

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_____ "Ferguson was from Farmington, Ohio, who as a lad of seventeen joined a small group from Ottawa, Illinois, and went overland in 1850 to the gold fields of California._____ They took the south Pass route, detouring through Salt Lake City.Ferguson first mined at Reeces' Bar at Butte Creek._____ He moved to new claims frequently, wandering in the Northern Mines from 1850 to 1852._____ He described the mining camps of Marysville, Nevada City, and Grass Valley, and he wrote of the various methods of mining."_--Byrd/Gold 59. _____ Graff=1305 Cowan2=p.206 Wheat/Rush=74 Kurutz=235a Mattes=443 Mintz=148 Flake=3324. _____ Roughly the first half concerns the California gold rush. _____ The rest deals with gold hunting in Australia from 1852. _____ Illustrated with full page plates. _____ The cover title is "A Third of a Century in the Gold Fields.". _____ There is a water stain to the upper forecorners of both front and rear covers, to a depth of 3"._____ There is no interior evidence, and other than that, only marginal wear to the edges of the covers. _____. N° de réf. du vendeur 22040

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Titre : The / Experiences Of A Forty-Niner / During ...

Éditeur : Williams Pub. Co; Cleveland, Oh; 507 pp.; ; VG-; 1888/1888

Date d'édition : 1888

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat : Very Good

Etat de la jaquette : Dust Jacket Included

Edition : 1st Edition