Written by a pioneer of the early mining days, these reminiscences describe the voyage to the Pacific coast, the diggings, the river towns and the rough humour of California life in the Gold Rush. The book also prints a list of some 35,000 forty-niners, compiled so that the first gold-seekers would not be forgotten.
A lively first-hand source on the Gold Rush, though some anecdotes use the racial dialect humour of its day. Download the free EPUB.