Hunting for Gold: Reminiscences of Personal Experience and Research in the Early Days of the Pacific Coast from Alaska to Panama

by Major William Downie, Cal. founder of Downieville

$250 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

San Francisco, CA: California Publishing Co., 1893. First edition. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait of the author, illustrated from photographs and wood engravings, plates, portraits. Howes D-448 aa : Unassuming but valuable reminiscences of an inveterate miner and pioneer. Graff 1143. Soliday II, 357: The author was the first white man to cross from the coast to the Frazer River. His narrative is of the kind to furnish the novelist with first hand material. It

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