How We Get Gold In California By A Miner Of The Year '49

Language: English

Published by Harper & Brothers, NY, 1860

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19pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 20 engravings, first page only was damaged and is here presented in reproduction, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume XX, April, 1860. A first-hand account by a Forty-Niner. Includes Chinese Camp, the Mokelumne, Stanislaus, Murphy's, Murderer's Bar, Carson's, Mormon Gulch, the Tuolumne, Fremont Mill, Mariposa, Helvetia Quartz Mill, Grass Valley, El Rastra, Gold Bluff, Gold Hill, Table Mountain, French Corral, and the Shady Creek Canal. Illustrations include the author's camp on the Stanislaus, scenes of panning, winnowing, cradle rocking, and washing with the long tom, the river operations at Murderer's Bar, packing earth at Carson, a quicksilver machine in Mormon Gulch, a scene in Helvetia Quartz Mill at Grass Valley, Ocean Beach Mining at Gold Bluff, ground sluicing at Gold Hill, tunneling at Table Mountain, an interior view of the tunnel, hydraulic mining at French Corral, and the flume on the Shady Creek Canal. In plastic report cover.…

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Title
How We Get Gold In California By A Miner Of The Year '49
Author
Wells, William V.
Publisher
Harper & Brothers, NY
Publication year
1860
Condition
VG
Binding
Soft cover
Language
English
Dimensions
8vo

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