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Journey into Gold Country - Memories of a Forty-niner (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 2 760
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Journey into Gold Country - Memories of a Forty-niner (Paperback)
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Loot Price R276
Discovery Miles 2 760
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In 1849, Ralph Buckingham, a younger son of a youngest son of New
England Pilgrim stock, went to California from his small-town
Connecticut home. Landless, with no inheritance or trade of his
own, Ralph sailed around the Horn, then traveled overland from San
Francisco to gold country in the Trinity Mountains. He spent four
years in northern California, struggling daily to earn enough to
build a future. Sixty years later, back home in Connecticut, Ralph
writes his story at the behest of the Newtown Bee newspaper man.
Well-schooled in spite of his relative poverty, Ralph Buckingham
quotes Boswell, Shakespeare, Dickens, Byron, and Sir Walter Scott
as he describes the agonies and antics of men sluicing for gold
amidst rattlesnakes and mosquitoes where Western civilization had
not yet asserted itself. Recounting his adventures and the
colorful-and later, famous-characters he met, Ralph describes in
lively detail the geography and natural history of the lands where
he traveled and worked. The newspaper columns from 1910-originally
titled "Memories of a Forty-Niner"-were preserved by family members
for a century, handed down through generations. These Newtown Bee
articles, now transcribed and edited, tell the story of a young man
who went into the wilds with a sharp eye and a sharp mind, and
returned to tell those who stayed safely at home how it was to dig
for gold when the West was still untamed.
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