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Flavel Belcher letters, 1851-1857.
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Title:
Flavel Belcher letters, 1851-1857Creator/Contributor:
Belcher, Flavel, 1817?-, creator, correspondent.Abstract:
Letters relate to Flavel Belcher's experiences as a gold miner and Indian trader in California and as a member of Walker's
filibustering expedition in Nicaragua.
Date:
1851 (issued)Subject:
n-us-ca -- ncnq---Belcher, Flavel -- 1817?- -- Correspondence
Walker, William -- 1824-1860
Walker, William -- 1824-1860
Filibuster War (Nicaragua : 1855-1860)
Indian traders -- California -- El Dorado County
Gold miners -- California
Gold mines and mining -- California
Commerce
Gold mines and mining
California -- Gold discoveries
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century
Nicaragua -- History -- Filibuster War, 1855-1860 -- Personal narratives
California
Nicaragua
Note:
Flavel Belcher letters, 1851-1857, BANC MSS C-B 524, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Related collection: Belcher family correspondence (BANC MSS 2015/181).
In English.
Type:
History.Personal narratives.
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Language:
English