PACIFIC NORTHWEST Travel Exploration GOLD~MINING 1858

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INCREDIBLE JOURNEY “INCIDENTS ON LAND AND WATER, OR FOUR YEARS ON THE PACIFIC COAST” BY MRS. D. B. BATES, BOSTON, E. O. LIBBY AND CO. 1858. This exciting travel journal is a “Narrative Of The Burning Of The Ships Nonantum, Humayoon And Fanchon, Together With Many Startling And Interesting Adventures On Sea And Land.” The author was born in the town of Kingston, in the state of Massachusetts and married a merchant sailor, or as she describes it “his home was on the deep.” Then came the sad partings from loved friends, to follow for many consecutive years the fortunes of her husband by sea and land. Among contents addressed; Fire On Board Ship Noantum While At Sea, The Falkland Islands, Depart From Falklands And Second Fire Off Cape Horn, Third Fire At Sea; Burning Of The Ship Fanchon On The Coast Of Peru, Arrival And Residence At Payta, Arrival At Panama And Taboga, Arrival At San Francisco, Fire In 1851 In San Francisco, Chinese Immigrant Workers, Leave San Francisco For Marysville, Indian Rancheria And Its Occupants, Marysville Inundated, Flood, Sacramento Valley, French Coral, Park's Bar, Visits To Sutter, Gold Miners, Experience In Mining, Gold Diggers, Execution Of A Man In Marysville, Accident At The Mines, Hardships; Winter Of 1852, Incidents Illustrious of Morals In California, etc. Eventually she and her husband depart for read more

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