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"One of the most vivid and best written gold rush journals we have ever handled." - Christie's Auction House This amazing collection of Gold Rush journals were lost in the archives until 2021 and never published. It's a literary treasure that chronicles America's Gold Rush era in astonishing detail, and one of the most riveting first-hand accounts of California Gold Rush history ever discovered. Ride along with Daniel Jenks on his cross-country California Gold Rush Odyssey, and see what it was really like to be a '49er during the Gold Rush Days. The Jenks Journals are Wild West Storytelling at its finest, rich in the color and singular culture of those California gold rush boomtowns, and it's delivered to us in the Argonaut's own words. Writing to an "imaginary confidant", Jenks shares his inner-most thoughts with the reader - the dreams and fears that drove him. When he first arrived at the San Francisco Gold Rush in 1849, Jenks was a lanky 21-year-old Greenhorn with no marketable skills. Years later he'd be elected Constable of Yreka Township and become an important figure in Yreka history. Daniel spent many of his gold rush days panning for gold at historic California gold minin

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Author

Larry Obermesik

Publisher

Larry Obermesik

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781736529935

Category

work of fiction