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LETTERS YOUNG MINER 1849-52 JASPER S HILL CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH DOYCE B NUNIS LTD
| Title: |
The Letters of a Young Miner |
| Subtitle: |
Covering the Adventures of Jasper S. Hill During the California Gold Rush 1849-1852 |
| Author/Editor: |
- Jasper Smith Hill
- Editor Introduction and Notes:
- Doyce B. Nunis, Jr.
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| Year: |
1964 |
| Edition: |
1st |
| Publisher: |
John Howell Books, San Francisco, CA |
| Contents: |
- Overland to California
- Burlington, Iowa to Placerville, CA
- Letters From the Mines
- Appendices:
- John P. Grantham Letter to Enoch S. Hill
- Census of the Mt. Pleasant Mining Company
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| Illustrated: |
- B&W illustrations
- Frontispiece: Author
- Fold-out Map of Northern California
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| Pages: |
111 |
| Binding: |
Hardbound - Gold boards with red title and black trim |
| Mylar protector: |
Yes |
| Size: |
7¾ x 10½" |
| Summary: |
- Hill's letters recount the Mt. Pleasant Mining Company moving across country to California in 1849, and life in the mining camps.
- He describes economic information, labor conditions, commodity prices, early exhaustion of the placer mines, and transition to quartz mining.
- After three years, he returned to Iowa without wealth and died in 1858 in New Jersey (possibly from TB).
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| Condition Description: |
Fine - Crisp Like New - Unread - Slight fold line at upper corner of map. (Camera shadow on map image) |
| CC ID# SL: |
BOCA 14407
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