Scenes of Wonder Curiosity From Hutchings California Magazine, 1856-1861 (Classic Reprint)
Author | : Roger R. Olmsted |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2018-02 |
ISBN-10 | : 0267513356 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780267513352 |
Rating | : 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Excerpt from Scenes of Wonder Curiosity From Hutchings California Magazine, 1856-1861 That solid information James Hutchings was well prepared to supply. California was his subject; he knew it very well indeed. Born in England in 1824, he had come to the United States as a youth and was employed in a New Orleans business house when news of the great California gold strike swept the nation. He crossed the plains and moun tains in '49, arriving in Placerville in October. He served more than an apprenticeship in the mines: he made his pile and lost it in the failure of a San Francisco bank, thus gaining invaluable first-hand experience with two major California institutions. He later had little to say about banks in his magazine, but he identified himself strongly with the miners, portraying their life and problems, and ever holding the industrious miner the best of the state's citizens. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.