Notes by the camp fire : being a narrative of an overland journey from the United States to California in the year 1849.

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Notes by the camp fire : being a narrative of an overland journey from the United States to California in the year 1849.

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Holograph account of the Havilah Mining Association's overland journey from Fort Smith, Ark. to the gold regions of California. The association was composed of 34 men, of whom George F. Sniffen wrote the journal. The journal begins in March 1849 with the company making preparations for its journey and concludes in early January 1850 with Sniffen and a friend gaining passage on a ship in San Francisco to return to the eastern United States.

1 v. (68 leaves)

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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Havilah Mining Association.

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Sniffen, George F.

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Goodman, John B. (John Bartlett), 1901-1991

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The "Revised and concise history of the Vigilance Committee of 1856" was written by Almarin Paul, a '49er pioneer who moved to Sacramento from St. Louis. Established a merchant firm in Sacramento but soon sold his shares to go into mining. He became the first person to mine for silver in Nevada, and is the inventor of the iron process for working silver ores and of some other mining machinery. During his first few years in California, Paul was an active member of the Vigilance Committee of 1856....