The diary of a forty-niner
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- Publication date
- 1920
- Topics
- Ethnic groups
- Publisher
- Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin company
- Collection
- library_of_congress; americana
- Contributor
- The Library of Congress
- Language
- English
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First 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." Pref. p. ix. The name Alfred T. Jackson is probably fictitious
Chauncey de Leon Canfield (1843-1909) first published "The diary of a forty-niner" in 1906, and 1,200 of the 2,000 copies in that edition were burned. Joseph Gaer's Bibliography of California literature, 20 describes this book as written in the form of a diary, but fictional.' The diary of a forty-niner (1920) reprints Canfield's 1906 publication. It purports to be the diary of Alfred T. Jackson, of Litchfield County, Connecticut, during his days as a gold prospector, 1850-1852. Jackson offers firsthand accounts of Nevada City and neighboring Rock Creek; descriptions of Grass Valley, North and South Yuba Valleys, and the Sierra Mountains; details of gold mining with accounts of pioneer overland crossings, and foreign mineworkers (including Chinese). Entries concerning Jackson's personal life include details of his courtship of a French woman in the camps
First 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." Pref. p. ix. The name Alfred T. Jackson is probably fictitious
Chauncey de Leon Canfield (1843-1909) first published "The diary of a forty-niner" in 1906, and 1,200 of the 2,000 copies in that edition were burned. Joseph Gaer's Bibliography of California literature, 20 describes this book as written in the form of a diary, but fictional.' The diary of a forty-niner (1920) reprints Canfield's 1906 publication. It purports to be the diary of Alfred T. Jackson, of Litchfield County, Connecticut, during his days as a gold prospector, 1850-1852. Jackson offers firsthand accounts of Nevada City and neighboring Rock Creek; descriptions of Grass Valley, North and South Yuba Valleys, and the Sierra Mountains; details of gold mining with accounts of pioneer overland crossings, and foreign mineworkers (including Chinese). Entries concerning Jackson's personal life include details of his courtship of a French woman in the camps
- Addeddate
- 2009-03-10 18:15:27
- Call number
- 6380760
- Camera
- Canon 5D
- External-identifier
- urn:oclc:record:1043009051
- Foldoutcount
- 0
- Identifier
- diaryoffortynine00canf
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t43r16z19
- Identifier-bib
- 00019480586
- Lccn
- 21004325
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- OL6632913M
- Openlibrary_work
- OL7305646W
- Page_number_confidence
- 87
- Page_number_module_version
- 1.0.3
- Pages
- 284
- Possible copyright status
- NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
- Ppi
- 400
- Scandate
- 20090317142429
- Scanfactors
- 0
- Scanner
- scribe6.capitolhill.archive.org
- Scanningcenter
- capitolhill
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