California gold miner letter : Fort Worth, Tex., to his niece : TL, 1905 Jan. 26.

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California gold miner letter : Fort Worth, Tex., to his niece : TL, 1905 Jan. 26.

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Contains 8 pages of an incomplete letter of a Calif. gold miner relating his experiences traveling by wagon train with Fred Curtiss, James Godfrey and his brother (her father), to Calif. in 1849, until his return in 1851 by ship through the Panama Canal. While traveling to Calif. he came across many Native American tribes, the remnants of the cabins of the Donner Party, and other wagon trains. On his return trip in 1851 he recounts meeting P.T. Barnum and daughter, as well as Jenny Lind.

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