The Diary of a Forty-niner

The Diary of a Forty-niner
Author: Chauncey L. Canfield
Publisher:
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1906
Genre: California
ISBN:

Chauncey de Leon Canfield (1843-1909) first published "The diary of a forty-niner" in 1906, and 1,200 of the 2,000 copies in that edition were burned. Joseph Gaer's Bibliography of California literature describes this book as written in the form of a diary, but fictional. The diary of a forty-niner (1920) reprints Canfield's 1906 publication. It purports to be the diary of Alfred T. Jackson, of Litchfield County, Connecticut, during his days as a gold prospector, 1850-1852. Jackson offers first-hand accounts of Nevada City and neighboring Rock Creek; descriptions of Grass Valley, North and South Yuba Valleys, and the Sierra Mountains; details of gold mining with accounts of pioneer overland crossings, and foreign mineworkers (including Chinese). Entries concerning Jackson's personal life include details of his courtship of a French woman in the camps.

The Adventures of a Forty-niner

The Adventures of a Forty-niner
Author: Daniel Knower
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1894
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

An Albany, New York, physician, Daniel Knower (b. ca. 1818) sailed for California in 1849 with twelve prefabricated frame houses for the San Francisco market. The adventures of a forty-niner (1894) describes Knower's business and real estate speculations in San Francisco as well as an extended visit to a mining camp near Coloma and the life of prospectors there.

Forty-niners 'round the Horn

Forty-niners 'round the Horn
Author: Charles R. Schultz
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781570033292

Drawing upon more than one hundred unpublished diaries, Schultz profiles the individuals who embarked on these journeys and demonstrates how markedly the gold rush voyages differed from general commercial trading and whaling ventures."--BOOK JACKET.

Top 10

Top 10
Author: Alan Moore
Publisher: Vertigo
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2015-04-21
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1401259278

The massive, multilayered city of Neopolis, built shortly after World War II, was designed as a home for the expanding population of science-heroes, heroines and villains that had ballooned into existence in the previous decade. In 1985 the city accepted jurisdiction by a police force covering many alternate Earths, headquartered on the world known as Grand Central. Our own outpost of this network, Precinct Ten (known affectionately as Top 10), recruits its members from Neopolis and its environs, working much like Earth’s other police precincts, with one major exception: Like the citizens of the city, the officers of Top 10 have the abilities needed to deal with Neopolis’s exotic denizens. Rookie cop Robyn Slinger, alter ego “Toybox,” hits the streets for the first time along with a colorful crew of fellow officers, each having the required training to deal with science-villains and super-crimes, as well as the common misdemeanors of city life. You’ll never look at powers, or police work, the same way again! From Alan Moore, the writer of WATCHMEN and V FOR VENDETTA, and artists Gene Ha (JUSTICE LEAGUE) and Zander Cannon (Transformers), the Eisner award-winning series TOP 10 is collected here in its entirety!

Volunteer Forty-niners

Volunteer Forty-niners
Author: Walter T. Durham
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780826512987

In Volunteer Forty-Niners, Walter T. Durham provides the first comprehensive examination of the role Tennessee and Tennesseans played in creating a new state and a new society on the West Coast. Drawing from such archival sources as personal narratives in letters and diaries, public records, and newspaper reports, Durham has woven a wealth of information into his recounting of their adventures.

The 49ers

The 49ers
Author: John Warham
Publisher: Book Guild Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Air pilots
ISBN: 9781846245879

'The 49ers' is the remarkable story of the Cathay Pacific pilots who beat the system.