A Yankee Trader in the Gold Rush. The Letters of Franklin A. Buck.

A Yankee Trader in the Gold Rush. The Letters of Franklin A. Buck.
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1930 · Boston and New York

by Buck, Franklin A.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1930 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Compiled by Katherine A. White. 294pp. Illustrated. Original dark green cloth lettered in red. A fine copy. "Ably edited letters of an observant miner and merchant" (Wheat). "These outstanding letters range in date from November 24, 1846, to January 22, 1881. Remarkably, all were addressed to Buck's sister... Buck, writing from New York, first mentioned the possibility of seeking gold in California in a December 2, 1848, letter" (Kurutz). In August of 1849, Buck arrived in San (truncated)
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