The 1849 California Gold Rush...
OLIVE BRANCH, Boston, August 18, 1849
- California gold rush
- San Francisco - 49ers
Page 2 has: "From San Francisco" which has reports concerning the Gold Rush and the high prices of commodities (see), including: "...Matters appear to go on very quietly both in the towns & the diggins...The accounts from the diggins are cheering. The waters of the Sacramento & San Joaquin were steadily falling...about 15,000 foreigners & Americans were scratching gravel in the dry diggins..." with more.
Page 3 has: "Discouraging News from a Massachusetts Company (see photos), and "Overland Californians" and "California Items" (see photos).
Four pages, minor fold wear, never bound nor trimmed.
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