Gold rush memoir of John H. Townes, Brookville, Indiana, including an account of a trip to Cincinnati by canoe in 1849 [i.e., 1851]
Published: 1851
Language: eng
Number of pages: 11
Subjects: Schools; Description; Biography
Description: Part of a diary kept while Townes was traveling to  Panama; this part describes his schooling in Brookville, then the trip to Cincinnati and down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans, where it ends; many people from Brookville are mentioned.
Notes: Owned in the 1960s by John Goodwin.

Copied in the 1960s for the collection of the Allen County Public Library under the direction of Fred J. Reynolds.

Photocopy of holograph original.