The Diary of a Forty-Niner

CANFIELD, Chauncey - L. - Editor

ISBN 10: 0962798738 / ISBN 13: 9780962798733

Published by Turtle Point Press, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1992

About this Item

Originally published in 1906. The diary "purported to be the experiences of Alfred T. Jackson, a pioneer miner who . worked on Rock Creek, Nevada County, California". xxii, 193 p. : map ; 22 cm. Bright, clean interior, unmarked. Tight, square binding, no spine creases. Only small defect - a light top corner crease to the front wrapper. Weight, 300g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 30826

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Diary of a Forty-Niner
• Publisher: Turtle Point Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0962798738
• ISBN 13: 9780962798733
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Trade Paperback Ed.
• Condition: VG+
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • USA - History , Politics, Topography
  • Letters, Memoirs, Papers, Diaries

About this title

Synopsis

In August 1906, Chauncey Canfield committed to his publisher a found text: the diary, ostensibly verified, of one Alfred T. Jackson, a pioneer miner who joined the Gold Rush from his home in Norfolk, Connecticut, migrating to Rock Creek, Nevada County, California, where he cabined and worked. The Diary covers two years of Jackson's life, and provides us with one of the richest documents of a period of perhaps unequaled importance to the expansion of the United States.

Synopsis

Alfred T. Jackson was a pioneer miner who joined the Gold Rush from his home in Norfolk, Connecticut, migrating to Rock Creek, Nevada County, California, where he cabined and worked. This Diary covers two years of Jackson's life.