Chauncey Canfield, Diary of a Forty-niner

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The discovery of gold in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California brought thousands of prospectors to the new territory. This database, originally published in 1906, is a diary kept by a fictional miner created by Chauncey Canfield. Despite the invented stories and experiences in this collection, researchers will find actual accounts of Nevada City and neighboring Rock Creek. It also provides details of gold mining operations in the area and descriptions of the living conditions of foreign-born mineworkers. For researchers trying to better understand the life of a typical gold miner in California, this database can provide interesting and illuminating information.

Sources Library of Congress. California As I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years. Vol. 69. [database on-line] Washington: Library of Congress, 1999. Canfield, Chauncey de Leon, ed. The Diary of a Forty-niner. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1920.

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