RECOLLECTIONS OF A '49ER. A QUAINT AND THRILLING NARRATIVE OF A TRIP ACROSS THE PLAINS, AND LIFE IN THE CALIFORNIA GOLD FIELDS..
1908 · Kansas Cit
by McIlhany, Edward W
Kansas Cit, 1908. 212pp. Plates. Illus. Gilt pictorial cloth. Scuffed, else very good. In 1849, at the age of twenty, the author travelled overland with the Charlestown Company of West Virginia. He spent a number of years in the gold fields, both as a miner and a general roustabout. "...Of merit in building a well-rounded picture of a complex microcosm" - Wheat. COWAN, p.407. MINTZ 319. GRAFF 2614. HOWES M111. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 133. KURUTZ 419. (Inventory #: WRCAM535)