Title: Recollections of California Mining Life. Primitive Placers and First Important Discovery of Gold. The Pioneers of the Pioneers - Their Fortune and Their Fate Author: DeGroot, Henry Place: San Francisco Publisher: Dewey & Co. Date: 1884 Description: 16 pp. 5 full page wood engravings. (8vo) original blue printed wrappers, woodcut illustration on the front wrapper, chemise and slipcase. First Edition. "Crammed with gold discovery data." - Wheat. De Groot provides an eye-witness account of the early California Gold Rush. DeGroot was a journalist with the New York Tribune who went to California in 1849. He took up gold mining rather quickly and continued to write about it as a newspaperman. His pamphlet explains Fremont's failure to discover gold, discusses General Sutter's discovery and the principal actors in that drama, the spreading of the news, General Sutter's account of the gold find, and much else. The illustrations are of Sutter's Mill, "where gold was first discovered"; several scenes of gold-mining; "street in a mining town"; and a mining camp in the mountains. Streeter Sale 2985; Wheat, Gold Rush 56; Cowan p.162; Howes D220 note. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear to slipcase and chemise; wrappers soiled and a bit creased, browned; foxing and slight rippling; internally very good. Item number: 261248
Title: Recollections of California Mining Life. Primitive Placers and First Important Discovery of Gold. The Pioneers of the Pioneers - Their Fortune and Their Fate Author: DeGroot, Henry Place: San Francisco Publisher: Dewey & Co. Date: 1884 Description: 16 pp. 5 full page wood engravings. (8vo) original blue printed wrappers, woodcut illustration on the front wrapper, chemise and slipcase. First Edition. "Crammed with gold discovery data." - Wheat. De Groot provides an eye-witness account of the early California Gold Rush. DeGroot was a journalist with the New York Tribune who went to California in 1849. He took up gold mining rather quickly and continued to write about it as a newspaperman. His pamphlet explains Fremont's failure to discover gold, discusses General Sutter's discovery and the principal actors in that drama, the spreading of the news, General Sutter's account of the gold find, and much else. The illustrations are of Sutter's Mill, "where gold was first discovered"; several scenes of gold-mining; "street in a mining town"; and a mining camp in the mountains. Streeter Sale 2985; Wheat, Gold Rush 56; Cowan p.162; Howes D220 note. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear to slipcase and chemise; wrappers soiled and a bit creased, browned; foxing and slight rippling; internally very good. Item number: 261248
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