Alonzo Delano, California Correspondence, 1849-52

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Winning fame as an early California humorist, Alonzo Delano traveled from Ottawa, Illinois, to the West Coast in 1849. This database is a collection of his letters to the Ottawa Free Trader between his arrival in the territory and 1852. It includes accounts of his life in Sacramento, Marysville, and San Francisco. It also reveals his experiences as a storekeeper in Mud Hill, Stringtown, Gold Lake, and Grass Valley. For those researchers wishing to better understand the average life of a California settler, this can be a useful source of information.

Sources Library of Congress. California As I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years. Vol. 73. [database on-line] Washington: Library of Congress, 1999. Delanno, Alonzo. Alonzo Delano's California Correspondece. Sacramento, CA: Sacramento Book Collectors Club, 1952.

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