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The Golden Days of '49: A Tale of the California Diggings

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The Golden Days of '49: A Tale of the California Diggings

by Munroe, Kirk

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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1889 First edition. Pp. ix,[1], 351. Plates, including frontis, after drawings by W.C. Jackson. Red pictorial cloth stamped in silver on spine and front cover. Spine slightly sunned. Early owner's name on endpaper. A fine, tight copy. A novel of the California Gold Rush, popular enough to be reprinted twice prior to 1924. Thirty-two chapters including Off for the Land of Gold; From Havana to Chagres, San Francisco in the Spring of '49; Up the Sacramento River; Gold Diggings and Diggers; From Dusty Gulch to Sacramento; San Francisco Revisited; The Making of a State; and more. "California politics and elections of the early days are described. Adventures of a miner during the gold rush. Calaveras, Stockton, San Francisco, Sacramento, Monterey, 1848-1850" (Baird & Greenwood). "A boys story of the Gold Rush" (Wheat). [Baird & Greenwood: 1833; Cowan: p.447; Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush: 97n, appendix]..

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
The Golden Days of '49: A Tale of the California Diggings
Author
Munroe, Kirk
Book Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Dodd, Mead & Company
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1889
Keywords
California Gold Rush Mining Geology History Western Americana Californiana 1849 49ers

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