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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
University of California, Davis Library,
University Archives
Title: C. H. Bucknam Letter
Creator:
Bucknam, C. H.
Identifier/Call Number: MC305
Physical Description:
1 item
4 pages. Letter has mailing folds. Light soiling,
else very good. Fairly legible script.
8 x 5 inches
Date: October 18,
1868
Abstract: Letter from C. H.
Bucknam in Sacramento, California to his mother.
Physical Location: Researchers should
contact Archives and Special Collections to request collections,
as many are stored offsite.
Letter from C. H. Bucknam in Sacramento, California to his
mother, dated to October 18th, 1868. The letter starts with
pleasantries and then Bucknam writes, "I left the mountains two
weeks ago come tomorrow. The work got to be most to[sic]
dangerous for me. For the last Sunday that I stayed there they
killed two men…It was a sad sight to see the old man carried over
across the river in a cart and a few Drunken men following on
after him he was about sixty years old and had no friends that
they could find I would not work that Sunday perhaps if I had
shown(?) [I would] have been served the same." He then goes on to
speak about seeing Capt. Johnson and Capt. James Humphery. He
also saw a Mr. Chamberlin Mill(?) on his first trip as purser of
the new Steamer Santa Cruz. He speaks of not having money to take
the last steamer home, and then how he "should go back this boat
but I am afraid the small pox might break out on board and it
would be bad in hot weather." The SS Santa Cruz, mentioned in
Bucknam's letter, was in use from 1868 to 1924 and was a 133-foot
wood-hulled passenger cargo steamer built in San Francisco. The
steamer Santa Cruz was owned by the Pacific Coast Steamship
Company from 1876-1911, and the Puget Sound Salvage Company from
1911-1924 (Marla Daily, Islapedia Online).
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Back of Beyond Books, 2020.
[Identification of item], C. H. Bucknam Letter, MC305,
Archives and Special Collections, UC Davis Library, University of
California, Davis.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Sacramento (Calif.) -- History
Michael and Margaret B. Harrison
Western Research Center