Joshua Spriggs letters : [Wis.], to Eddie Leroy Tye, Santa Maria, Calif. : ALS, 1891-1892.

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Joshua Spriggs letters : [Wis.], to Eddie Leroy Tye, Santa Maria, Calif. : ALS, 1891-1892.

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Contains 30 letters written by Joshua Spriggs to his 2-year-old grandson Eddie Leroy Tye about his time in Calif. and Or. The letters describe his account by sea through Panama to San Francisco, the harbor and city of San Francisco including the Chinese Quarter, he describes the people he comes across including many Native Americans in Calif. and Or. recounting many of their legends and their experience with alcohol, he describes gold mining in Calif. as well as a friend's account of mining in Australia, farming and ranching in Calif. and Or. and crime including the account of a bank robber from Chicago and the story of criminal Joaquin Murieta.

2 boxes (.6 linear ft.)

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Spriggs, Joshua.

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Joshua Spriggs, an editor of a newspaper in Brighton, Wis., traveled twice in the 1850's and 1860's to Calif. and Or. From the description of Joshua Spriggs letters : [Wis.], to Eddie Leroy Tye, Santa Maria, Calif. : ALS, 1891-1892. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 227511305 ...

Murieta, Joaquín, -1853

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Tye, Edward Leroy.

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