John W. Earnest California Gold Rush and Civil War Manuscript
Processed by D. Tambo
Department of Special Collections
© 2003
Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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John W. Earnest California Gold Rush and Civil War Manuscript, 1938
Collection number: Wyles SC 83
Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara- Department of Special Collections
- Davidson Library
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Santa Barbara, CA 93106
- Phone: (805) 893-3062
- Fax: (805) 893-5749
- Email: special@library.ucsb.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/speccoll.html
- Processed by:
- D. Tambo
- Date Completed:
- 28 May 2003
- Encoded by:
- David C. Gartrell
© 2003 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Title: John W. Earnest California Gold Rush and Civil War Manuscript,
Date (inclusive): 1938
Collection Number: Wyles SC 83
Creator:
Earnest, William W.
Extent:
.05 linear feet
(1 folder)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Vault
Language:
English.
None.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
John W. Earnest California Gold Rush and Civil War Manuscript. Wyles SC 83. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library,
University of California, Santa Barbara.
Gift of Sheila McMurray.
Scope and Content of Collection
One typed manuscript (TMS), 94 pages, "The Life of John W. Earnest (1824-1913)," by his son William W. Earnest, including
an account of John W. Earnest's overland trip from Illinois to the California goldfields in 1850, experiences there, return
east to Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1860, and forced service in the Confederacy as a Northerner during the Civil War.
Box
One typed manuscript (TMS), 94 pages, "The Life of John W. Earnest (1824-1913)," by his son William W. Earnest, 1938