"Dear Charlie" Letters Recording The Everyday Life Of A Young 1854 Gold Miner ...As Set Forth By Your Friend, Horace Snow With Suitable Gold Rush Engravings

HORACE C. SNOW

Publication: A Publication of the Mariposa County Historical Society, 1983, Mariposa

Revised edition. 8vo. Originally published in 1979. Pictorial wrappers, x, [8], 118 pp., preface, introduction, illustrated, map. Horace C. Snow, the writer of the "Dear Charlie" letters, was one of many young men who came to California to make their fortune in the gold fields. The letters provide a rich source of information on how a young miner and his partners lived their California gold-mining days in Mariposa County. Delightful reading. Covers lightly used else a near fine copy.