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- Collection: California - Fall 2024 (HIST 27/127)
The way they go to CaliforniaGold rush cartoon, showing dock crowded with men with picks and shovels, and men jumping from the dock to reach departing ship; a crowded airship and…
Foreign Miners Tax documents, 1850-1867.A foreign miners tax license.
Peter Hardeman Burnett - circa 1860[Peter Hardeman Burnett (1807-1895), first Governor of California]
California Gold Diggers, Mining Operations on the Western Shore of the Sacramento RiverA group of miners along a river.
Laws of the State of California An act for the government and protection of Indians.Act for the Government and Protection of Indians which was passed in California in 1850.
Gold Rush Era Chinese EmigrantA Chinese emigrant from the Gold Rush Era.
Chinese Camp in the MinesA group of Chinese miners in California.
Six months in the gold mines : from a journal of three years' residence in Upper and Lower California. 1847-8-9Edward Gould Buffum writes a short passage about attacks of whites versus Indians.
The autobiography of Charles Peters, in 1915 the oldest pioneer living in California, who mined in ... the days of '49 ... Also historical happenings, interesting incidents and illustrations of the old mining towns in the good luck era, the placer mining days of the '50sPortuguese Charles Peters' accounts and stories of seeking gold in California.
Discovery of the Yosemite, and the Indian war of 1851, which led to that eventAn account of discovering Yosemite Valley by Lafayette Houghton Bunnell, a member of the Mariposa Battallion. Tells encounters with native tribes