The diary of a forty-niner
Découvertes d'or
Gold miners
Frontier and pioneer life, west (u.s.)
Gold discoveries
Ethnic groups
Gold mines and mining
Récits personnels
Diaries
Biography
History
Fiction
Chauncey de Leon Canfield (1843-1909) first published "The diary of a forty-niner" in 1906, and 1,200 of the 2,000 copies in that edition were burned. Joseph Gaer's Bibliography of California literature, 20 describes this book as written in the form of a diary, but fictional.' The diary of a forty-n…
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