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Gold Dust: The Log of a Forty-Niner Kept by William Ives Morgan 1849-'50-'51-'52-'53 : typescript, [ca. 1930?].
BANC MSS 70/190 cLOCAL
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Title:

Gold Dust: The Log of a Forty-Niner Kept by William Ives Morgan 1849-'50-'51-'52-'53 : typescript, [ca. 1930?]

Creator/Contributor:

Muzzy, Florence Emlyn Downs, 1851-1939, creator, editor.

Abstract:

An unpublished work.
Morgan's diary records his voyage to California around the Horn, experiences mining in the vicinity of Volcano and Sutter Creek, his voyage to Sandwich Islands, and other islands in the Pacific, and his return to Connecticut via Nicaragua.
Included: biographical information about Morgan; footnotes; photographs of pages of the original MS; photographs suggested for use as illustrations, etc.

Date:

1930 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca
Voyages to the Pacific coast
Gold mines and mining -- California
Voyages in the Pacific Coast
Voyages vers la côte du Pacifique
Gold mines and mining
Voyages to the Pacific coast
Volcano (Calif.)
California
California -- Volcano
Morgan, William Ives -- 1827-1869

Type:

Photoprints.
Diaries.
Biographies.

Physical Description:

[18], 166 leaves ; 28 cm

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC MSS 70/190 cLOCAL

Origin:

California