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A Buckeye In The Land Of Gold. The Letters And Journal Of William Dennison Bickham HAM, RANDALL E. [EDITED BY].

A Buckeye In The Land Of Gold. The Letters And Journal Of William Dennison Bickham

HAM, RANDALL E. [EDITED BY].

Other works by HAM, RANDALL E. .

Publication: The Arthur H Clark Company, 1996, Spokane

First edition. 8vo. Greenish-blue cloth, titles stamped in gold gilt on the front cover and spine, 286 pp., frontispiece (map), acknowledgments, introduction, prologue, illustrated, maps, footnotes, epilogue, bibliography, index. "William Dennison Bickham's California Gold Rush letters and diary are among the finest writings about the California Gold Rush. His account includes topics and characters largely ignored in other gold rush accounts. The author provides a detailed and intimate record of one man's experience enroute to, in and out of the mining camps. His recounting of the voyage to San Francisco and his first months in the mines were described in letters sent to and originally printed in the Cincinnati Gazette. The second portion of his account is a journal, kept for his sisters in the east, of his experiences as a miner during the winter and spring of 1851 and as a customs inspector in San Francisco during the following summer and autumn of that year. Unique topics covered include friction between the Missouri "Jumpers" and the "Gentlemen Miners," the turmoil created by the Vigilantes, the San Francisco fire of June 22, 1851, the presence of Mormon families in the Northern Mines, and the lives and duties of San Francisco customs inspectors." As new, unread copy without dust jacket as issued.

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