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A Californa Mining Camp

The Gold Hunters (Borthwick)

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John David Borthwick (1824–1892)

This is a robust, rough and tumble, first-hand account of the early California gold rush years 1851-1854 by a Scottish adventurer and artist J. D. Borthwick. The first edition, published in 1857 was called Three Years in California. Reprints have used the more descriptive title The Gold Hunters.

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If you have enjoyed Borthwick’s tale of the California gold rush, you might like this account of  Pike’s Peak :
A Gold Hunter’s Experience, by Chalkley J. Hambleton

 

Or this adventurous tale:

Across the Pampas & Among the Andes, by Francis Bond Head

CD Cover, Across the Pampas

Sir Francis Bond Head went to the Argentine in 1825 as mining supervisor for the Rio Plata Mining Association, a group of English speculators whose ill-planned and financially disastrous idea it was to send Cornish miners to re-open old gold and silver mines in the former Spanish colonies. His Rough Notes, written in a staccato style that is surprisingly fresh, show a gutsy, resourceful adventurer–riding across the Andes on mules which sank into snow above their knees at every step; clambering down 250 feet of notched sticks to inspect a silver mine; foraging bluntly for food for his men in a land of scarcity.

 

An American in the Making, the Life Story of an Immigrant First Successful Ascent of Mt. Rainier, 1870

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