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Knower, Daniel.
THE ADVENTURES OF A FORTY-NINER.
1971 1st With an Introduction & Extended Notes by Kenneth M. Johnson. Facsimile of a map of San Francisco. Ashland, Oregon: Lewis Osborne, 1971. First edition thus, one of 600 numbered copies. Daniel Knower (1823-97) set sail in New York for California on the ship Georgia on July 1, 1849. After crossing the Isthmus of Panama, he boarded the steamer Panama and landed in San Francisco on August 18. He planned to make money by selling prefabricated houses that he shipped to the Golden State, and the major portion of his recollections are devoted to life during the height of gold fever in San Francisco, where he formed a partnership with Colonel J.D. Stevenson in the lumber business. Green cloth binding, with gilt stamping. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy. Cowan, R.: Bibliography of California, p.334; Kurutz, G.: The California Gold Rush, #381b.
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