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Ferguson's Mining Reminiscences

Title: The Experiences of a Forty-Niner During Thirty-Four Years...
Author: Ferguson, Charles D.
Description: xviii, 9-507 pp. Edited with an Introduction by Frederick T. Wallace. With 30 full-page wood engravings, including 3 frontispieces. 8½x5¼, original gilt maroon cloth, lettered in gilt. First Edition.Ferguson left Cleveland, Ohio, at the late date of September 2, 1849, but made it into California via the Lassen Cutoff. Only seventeen at the time, he mined at Rich Bar and the Feather River area, and provides descriptions of Marysville, Grass Valley and Nevada City, and gives information on various mining techniques. Hearing of the strikes Down Under, Ferguson left for Australia, not returning to San Francisco until 1883, and then back to Cleveland. Adams Gun 707; Cowan p. 206; Graff 1305; Kurutz 235a; Mattes 443; Mintz 148; Wheat Books 74.
Heading: Place Published: Cleveland
Publisher: Williams Publishing Company
Date Published: 1888