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From the Western and Civil War research/reference library of Jerry Crandall
The Diary of a 49er
by Alfred T. Jackson, edited by C.L. Canfield
Condition; fair, loose binding in hard cover, no dust jacket
Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1920 © 1906 Morgan Shepard Co.
Here is published the diary of Alfred T. Jackson, a pioneer miner who cabined and worked on Rock Creek, Nevada County, California. Presented is a truthful, unadorned, veracious chronicle of the placer mining days of the foothills. A narrative of events as they occurred told in simple and at time, ungrammatical sentences, yet vivid and truth compelling in the absence of literary endeavor. A raw first hand account of the method of gold panning, day-to-day life of a gold miner, the real people he encountered and his personal evolution from a New Englander to a 49er.
Complete with personal inscriptions, photos and a hand drawn map of the area. See photos.
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