Alden Finney Brooks diary fragment : typed transcript, [1959].

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Alden Finney Brooks diary fragment : typed transcript, [1959].

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Typed copy of an excerpt of Brooks' diary for June 7-July 2, 1860, with introductory and endnotes by the donor, presumably as part of a typescript for a book. The entries were written by Brooks at the age of twenty, and describes his travels through Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, Sutter, and Yuba counties, drawing, painting, and etching the landscape, local ranches, and flowers.

8 leaves.

California historical society

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SNAC Resource ID: 6834150

California historical society

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Brooks, Alden Finney, 1840-1932

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Artist, overland traveller, and Civil War veteran. Born in Ashtabula, Ohio, in 1840, Brooks moved with his family to Platteville, Wisc., in 1856. He taught school briefly in Elk Grove before joining a neighbor's prairie schooner for the trip to California. Brooks left his party at the Truckee River and travelled by stage to California, where he prospected and painted in Eureka, Orleans Flat, Nevada, and Grass Valley. Returning to Ohio to enlist in the 105th Ohio Voluntee...

Forsyth, Gloria B.

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Brooks was an artist who came to Calif. from Iowa in 1859. From the description of Alden Finney Brooks diary fragment : typed transcript, [1959]. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 145415888 ...