Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Scope and Content of Collection
Descriptive Summary
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.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
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.
Preferred Citation
John W. Earnest California Gold Rush and Civil War Manuscript. Wyles SC 83. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library,
University of California, Santa Barbara.
Acquisition Information
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.