Four Months Among the Gold-Finders in Alta California - Being Diary of an Expedition From San Francisco to Gold Districts

Klappentext This fictitious diary about the Californian Gold Rush was widely accepted as genuine! and was a bestseller in 1849. Zusammenfassung J. Tyrwhitt Brooks was a pseudonym of the nineteenth-century publisher and journalist, Henry Vizetelly (1820–94). This work of 1849 purported to be a genuine diary about the early days of the Californian Gold Rush, and was widely accepted as such, but Vizetelly later acknowledged it was a complete fiction. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Clearing the Faranolles; 2. Start for Monterey; 3. An arrival at San Francisco from the gold district; 4. The party leave San Francisco; 5. Encampment for the night; 6. The journey delayed; 7. Captain Sutter's account of the first discovery of the gold; 8. The author and his friends leave Sutter's Ford; 9. Two horses stray away; 10. Digging and washing, with a few reflections; 11. The proceedings of the week; 12. The party leave the Mormon diggings; 13. The party again shift their quarters; 14. Smoking and sleeping; 15. The party determine to start for Bear River; 16. A rest; 17. A rich mine of gold discovered; 18. Where McPhail was last seen; 19. The party strengthen their defences; 20. The author inclined to return to the coast; 21. The party start for the coast; 22. The stock of gold remaining weighed and shared; 23. The gold district; 24. The author and his friends part company; 25. Letter from the author to his brother in England.

Product details

• Authors: J. Tyrwhitt Brooks, Brooks J. Tyrwhitt
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.09.2011
• EAN: 9781108033381
• ISBN: 978-1-108-03338-1
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900