The letters of a young miner
Subtitle: covering the adventures of Jasper S. Hill during the California goldrush, 1849-1852.
By: Edited, with an introd. and notes, by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr
Contributors: Nunis, Doyce Blackman
Publisher: J. Howell-Books
Published: 1964
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- California; California -- Gold discoveries
Description: Hill's letters recount the Mt. Pleasant Mining Company (from Iowa) moving across country to California in 1849, and life in the mining camps. He described economic information, labor conditions, commodity prices, early exhaustion of the placer mines, and transition to quartz mining. After three years, he returned to Iowa without wealth.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references