Account of the discovery of gold in California / by Lester Tinker Rogers, ca. 1880.

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Account of the discovery of gold in California / by Lester Tinker Rogers, ca. 1880.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702129457

Telling how the Mormons were influential in the discovery, and of Samuel Brannan's alleged illegal acquisition of the supplies and store of Isaac Rogers, Jr.

5 p.; 31 cm.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8013087

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Rogers, Lester Tinker, 1821-

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Rogers, Isaac, 1793-1849

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American pioneer and convert to the Mormon Church. From the description of Letters, 1837-1848. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122550620 From the guide to the Isaac Rogers letters, 1837-1848, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Rogers, James S.

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Brannan, Sam, 1819-1889

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Sam Brannan (1819-1889) was born in Maine and moved to Ohio as a teenager. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and in 1844 began printing The Prophet, a Mormon newspaper, in New York. In 1846 Brannan sailed aboard the Brooklyn with about 240 other Mormons to San Francisco, where he was made first president of the California mission and established the California Star as the first newspaper in San Francisco. In 1848 Brannan traveled to Sutter's Mill as a representative of th...