Buy this book on-line Wells, William V : How We Get Gold In California By A Miner Of The Year '49Harper & Brothers, NY, 1860
8vo. 19pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 20 engravings, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume XX, April, 1860. A first-hand account by a Forty Niner. Includes Chinese Camp, the Mokelumne, Stanislaus, Murphy's, Murderer's Bar, Carson's, Mormon Gulch, the Tuolumne, Fremont Mill, Mariposa, Helvetia Quartz Mill, Grass Valley, El Rastra, Gold Bluff, Gold Hill, Table Mountain, French Corral, and the Shady Creek Canal. Illustrations include the author's camp on the Stanislaus, scenes of panning, winnowing, cradle rocking, and washing with the long tom, the river operations at Murderer's Bar, packing earth at Carson, a quicksilver machine in Mormon Gulch, a scene in Helvetia Quartz Mill at Grass Valley, Ocean Beach Mining at Gold Bluff, ground sluicing at Gold Hill, tunneling at Table Mountain, an interior view of the tunnel, hydraulic mining at French Corral, and the flume on the Shady Creek Canal. Housed in protective mylar report cover. Scarce.. Book. Book Condition: VG. Binding: Soft cover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Wells, William V : How We Get Gold In California By A Miner Of The Year '49. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out-of-print books, used books, livres rares, first editions and antiquarian books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |