A pioneer at Sutter's fort, 1846-1850
Subtitle: the adventures of Heinrich Lienhard ...
By: translated, edited, and annotated by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur from the original German manuscript.
Contributors: Wilbur, Marguerite Eyer, b. 1889.
Series: Calafia series,; no. 3
Publisher: The Calafía society
Published: 1941
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: Ethnic groups -- California.; Agriculture -- California.; Business -- California.; California -- Description and travel.; California -- Gold discoveries.
Description: Heinrich Lienhard (1822-1903), son of a Swiss farmer, sailed for America in 1843. After three years in the Midwest, Lienhard and four other young European immigrants set off by wagon for California, reaching Johann Sutter's New Helvetia in October 1846. After a few months in the U.S. Army, Lienhard returned to Sutter's settlement. In 1849 Lienhard returned to Switzerland to accompany Sutter's family to the New World. Disillusioned by the changed California he found in early 1850, Lienhard returned to Switzerland in July. A pioneer at Sutter's fort (1941) is based on a diary kept in his years in California and focuses on Johann Sutter, his family, and his settlement on the Sacramento. It also covers Lienhard's experiences as a farmer and a miner and his crossings of Panama and the Atlantic in 1849-1850.
Notes: No known restrictions on publication. No copyright renewal found.
Bibliography: p. 276-277.
Map on lining-papers.
A German edition was published in Switzerland in 1898 under title: California unmittelbar vor und nach der entdeckung des goldes. cf. p. xiv.
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