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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
The company being attacked at night by 50 Native Americans who they fight off in hand to hand combat. Also includes details of his arrival in San Diego, his boat trip to San Francisco aboard the brig Victorine and his friendship with Captain Joseph Lamson, descriptions of San Francisco and its harbor, and gold mining in Sonora, California. Throughout the diary, Salter comments on the nature of men and the foolishness of anyone leaving the comforts of home for a harsher journey than they can ever imagine in return for so little reward.Lewis A. Corbin diary, 1852.Contains daily log of a California gold miner including his voyage from Connecticut. Corbin mined in Mariposa Creek, Mormon Bar, Agua Fria and Guadeloupe as well as other camp, keeping track of gold found and the expenses of mining. Includes descriptions of encounters with other miners including Mexican miners and Native Californians. Diary included 4 gold nuggets attached to pins.William L. Wiggins reminiscences, 1877.Recollections of arrival at Bodega, July, 1840, on the Lausanne; Mexican and Russian officials; visit to Capt. Sutter with Peter Lassen; description of Native Americans; note on the naming of Mt. Shasta; service in Capt. Gantt's company supporting Gov. Micheltorena; journey to St. Louis and return, via Oregon, 1846-1848; gold discoveries, including those before 1848; life in early California. Recorded by Thomas Savage.Tilton letter to brotherDescribes to family back home life as a gold miner in Calif. and a treaty with a tribe of Native Californians.Horseshoe Bar gold miner letter : Sacramento City, [Calif.], to parents : ms., 1849 Sept. 16.Contains partial letter home describing a gold miners successes and failures gold mining on Horseshoe Bar on the American River in Calif. Also describes his interactions with local Native Americans.Alonzo W. Merrill letter : Angels [Camp, Calif.] to Miss Mary A. Merrill ("sister Ann"), Hebron, Mass. : ALS, 1854 July 9.Concerns daily life and living conditions in his mining claim near Angels Camp, Calif. Mentions numerous Mexicans, Chinese, and Native Americans living in the area.Edward, gold miner and trader, letter : Marysville, Yuba County, [Calif.] to father : ALS, 1859 June 17.Describes gold mining in Yuba, Butte and Sierra counties, trading of hides and deadly conflicts between settlers and Mormons and Native Americans.Leonard W. Gilchrist letter : Columbia, California, to Samuel Mason, [New Hamphshire?], 1853 July 2.Handwritten letter from a gold miner to a friend giving details of his voyage from
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