The Adventures of a Forty-Niner - Softcover

Knower, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 150844580X ISBN 13: 9781508445807

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

The Adventures of a Forty-Niner-A Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days is a classic 19th Century American/California history text by Daniel Knower. The discovery of gold in California, in 1848, with its other mineral resources, including the Alamada quicksilver mine at San Jose which is an article of first necessity in working gold or silver ore; and the great silver mines of Nevada, in 1860, the Comstock lode, in which, in ten years, from five to eight hundred millions of gold and silver were taken out, a larger amount than was ever taken from one locality before, the Alamada quicksilver mine being the second most productive of any in the world, the one in Spain being the largest, said to be owned by the Rothschilds.

About this title

About the Author:

Kenneth M. Johnson is a retired United Methodist clergyman living at Lake Junaluska, North Carolina.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 150844580X
• ISBN 13: 9781508445807
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 82