A Frenchman in the gold rush
Subtitle: the journal of Ernest de Massey, argonaut of 1849
By: translated by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur.
Contributors: Wilbur, Marguerite Eyer, b. 1889.
Series: California historical society. Special publication ;; no 2; Special publication (California Historical Society) ;; no. 2.
Publisher: California historical society
Published: 1927
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
Subjects: French -- California.; Ethnic groups -- California.; California -- Gold discoveries.; California -- Description and travel.; San Francisco (Calif.)
Description: Ernest de Massey was the younger son of a well-to-do French family that sailed to America and the Gold Rush in the spring of 1849. He eventually settled in San Francisco, where he lived until his return to Europe in 1857. A Frenchman in the gold rush (1927) is a translation of de Massey's journal covering his voyage to California, gold mining on the Trinity River, 1850, and visits to San José, Santa Cruz, and San Juan Bautista; and his career as a San Francisco businessman and journalist, 1850-1851.
Notes: No known restrictions on publication. No copyright renewal found.
Translated from the manuscript now the property of the Los Angeles public library.
This narrative, beginning with the arrival in San Francisco (part III of the original) was printed in volume V of the Quarterly of the California historical society in 1926.--Notes.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.