Alonzo Delano's California correspondence
Subtitle: being letters hitherto uncollected from the Ottawa (Illinois) Free trader and the New Orleans True delta, 1849-1952
By: edited with an introd. and notes by Irving McKee. Maps by Stewart Mitchell; decorations by Harry O. Diamond.
Contributors: McKee, Irving, 1909-
Series: Publication ;; no. 5; Publication (Sacramento Book Collectors Club) ;; no. 5
Publisher: Sacramento Book Collectors Club
Published: 1952
Place of publication: Sacramento, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- California.; Overland journeys to the Pacific.; Urbanization -- California.; Real estate development -- California.; Law and politics -- California.; Business -- California.; California -- Gold discoveries.
Other titles: California correspondence.
Description: Born in Aurora, New York, Alonzo Delano (1806-1874) moved on to the Midwest as a teenager. July 1848 found him a consumptive Ottawa, Illinois, storekeeper, and he joined a local California Company. He remained in the West after the Gold Rush, winning fame as an early California humorist. Alonzo Delano's California correspondence (1952) is an annotated twentieth-century reprinting of his letters, April 1849-August 1852, to newspapers in his home town of New Orleans. They cover his voyage to St. Joseph and an overland journey to California; sojourns in Sacramento, Marysville, and San Francisco; and experiences as a storekeeper at Mud Hill, Stringtown, Gold Lake, and Grass Valley. Topics include quartz mining, crime and vigilantism, and real estate investment. In 1857, Delano revised and expanded these letters for his book Life on the plains and among the diggings.
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