The adventures of a forty-niner
Subtitle: An historic description of California, with events and ideas of San Francisco and its people in those early days.
By: By Daniel Knower.
Publisher: Weed-Parsons printing co.
Published: 1894
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Urbanization -- California.; Real estate development -- California.; Business -- California.; California -- Gold discoveries.; California -- Description and travel.; San Francisco (Calif.) -- History.
Other titles: Days of the forty-niners.
Description: An Albany, New York, physician, Daniel Knower (b. ca. 1818) sailed for California in 1849 with twelve prefabricated frame houses for the San Francisco market. The adventures of a forty-niner (1894) describes Knower's business and real estate speculations in San Francisco as well as an extended visit to a mining camp near Coloma and the life of prospectors there.
Notes: No known restrictions on publication.
Spine title: The days of the forty-niners.
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