Thirty Years Ago 1849-1879. Gold Rush Memories Of A Daguerreotype Artist

DORNIN, GEORGE D.[EDITED BY PETER E. PALMQUIST]

Publication: Carl Mautz Publishing, 1995, Nevada City, California

First softcover edition. 8vo. Originally published as a hardcover edition in 1873. Perfect bound maroon pictorial stiff wrappers, vii [1], 55 [1] pp., frontispiece, acknowledgement, preface, illustrated. Cowan says "These reminiscences, written for the members of the family, give a graphic picture of life in the days of the gold-seekers. Kurutz 200 says, "He was eighteen when he heard of the gold excitement and booked passage on the ship Panama headed from New York around Cape Horn. The young gold seeker described in some detail the preparations for the voyage." Fine copy.