DeGroot, Henry:

$2,250 · Offered by William Reese Company

RECOLLECTIONS OF CALIFORNIA MINING LIFE. PRIMITIVE PLACERS AND THE FIRST IMPORTANT DISCOVERY OF GOLD. THE PIONEERS OF THE PIONEERS - THEIR FORTUNE AND THEIR FATE. WRITTEN FOR THE MINING AND ... Henry DeGroot was a journalist with the New York Tribune when he was sent to report on the gold discoveries in 1848. Rather than giving a personal account of his own experiences, however, DeGroot presents a very useful history of gold discoveries in California in 1848 and 1849. Other sections consider why John Fremont failed to discover gold earlier in the 1840s, and why many of the early pioneers failed to attain wealth. The illustrations are by the great Gold Rush artist, Charles Nahl. The front wrapper shows a miner panning for gold, and the rear wrapper illustrates a quartz mill. Other illustrations show Sutter's Mill and other mining camps, as well as various mining methods.Ximenes bought the Streeter copy for $50 in 1968. It is now in the DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University.

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