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In Pursuit of the Golden Dream. Reminiscences of San Francisco and the Northern and Southern Mines, 1849-1857 Hardcover - 1970

by Gardiner, Howard C

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Stoughton: Western Hemisphere, Inc., 1970 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First trade edition, first issue in the red cloth binding. Edited by Dale L. Morgan. Quarto. lxv, [1], 390pp. Frontispiece, seven illustrations, 2 maps (one folding). Red cloth, gilt. A fine copy. Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. Detailed reminiscences of a "Forty Niner." Contains interesting observations on life in San Francisco and in the mines. Gardiner came to California via Panama and remained for eight years. Morgan's 65 page introduction provides an extremely comprehensive survey of the entire literature of Gold Ruhs reminiscences, discussing in detail every such work published from 1860 to the present day, making clear why Gardiner's narrative stands "in the very first rank" of this literature. [Kurutz: 262]..
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  • Title In Pursuit of the Golden Dream. Reminiscences of San Francisco and the Northern and Southern Mines, 1849-1857
  • Author Gardiner, Howard C
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Publisher Western Hemisphere, Inc., Stoughton
  • Date 1970
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 3885

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