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Gold Rush Narrative from SF Mayor's Library

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Title: The Diary of a Forty-Niner
Author: Canfield, Chauncy L.
Description: [i]-xiii, [8], 231 pp. Frontispiece map; two-color title page and decorative headpieces. 8¼x6, original red buckram back, pictorial boards stamped in gilt, red and green, cover and spine lettered in gilt, top edge green. First Edition.James D. Phelan's copy, with his bookplate on front pastedown; Phelan was mayor of San Francisco (1897-1901) and a U.S. senator (1905-1921). Wheat calls the book "Fiction, but of notable quality as a depiction of Gold Rush life and times." Blumann & Thomas 2195; Cowan p.104; Graff 572; Howes C111; Kurutz 114a; Wheat Gold Rush 34.
Heading: Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher: Morgan Shepard
Date Published: 1906