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Life and Adventures of James W. Marshall

Title: The Life and Adventures of James W. Marshall: The Discoverer of Gold in California
Author: Parsons, George F.
Description: Introduction and notes by G. Ezra Dane. xvi, 144 pp. Photograph portrait frontispiece and three color folding offset reproductions. 7½x5, green boards; paper label of goldseeker on cover; paper spine label. Standard Edition.Reprint of the important but scarce biography, first published in 1870, of the man who started the Gold Rush and like his employer, John Sutter, was ruined by it. Cowan, p. 475 (first edition); Graff 3204; GB 225; Howes P105; Kurutz 483b; Rocq 1821; Wheat, Gold Rush: 153.
Heading: Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher: George Fields
Date Published: 1935