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Against the vigilantes the recollections of Dutch Charley Duane by Charles P. Duane; John Boessenecker
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ISBN: 9780806170053

Publication Date: 1999-01-01
Apron full of gold the letters of Mary Jane Megquier from San Francisco, 1849-1856 by Polly W. Kaufman
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ISBN: 9780826315007

Publication Date: 1994-04-01
Audubon's western journal, 1849-1850; being the MS. record of a trip from New York to Texas, and an overland journey through Mexico and Arizona to the gold-fields of California. by John Woodhouse Audubon
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California Gold Rush Overland Diary of Byron N. McKinstry by Bruce McKinstry
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection ; F593 .M25 1975

ISBN: 0870621149

Publication Date: 1975-01-01
California Gold Rush Merchant; The Journal of Stephen Chapin Davis by Stephen Chapin Davis
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

Edited by Benjamin B. Richards.
Roaring camp : the social world of the California Gold Rush by Susan Lee Johnson
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection ; F865 .J675 2001

ISBN: 0393320995

Publication Date: 2000-12-17
California Letters of the Gold Rush Period by John Ingalls
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

The correspondence of John Ingalls, 1849-1851 / edited by R.W.G. Vail
Exterminate them written accounts of the murder, rape, and slavery of Native Americans during the California gold rush, 1848-1868 by Clifford E. Trafzer (Editor); Joel R. Hyer (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780870135019

Publication Date: 1999-01-31
Faith of fools a journal of the Klondike Gold Rush by William Shape; Lee Laney (Introduction by); Frank B. Norris (Foreword by)
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ISBN: 9780874221602

Publication Date: 1998-01-01
Journals of Forty-niners Salt Lake to Los Angeles : with diaries and contemporary records of Sheldon Young, James S. Brown, Jacob Y. Stover, Charles C. Rich, Addison Pratt, Howard Egan, Henry W. Bigler, and others by Ann W. Hafen (Editor); Leroy R. Hafen (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780803273160

Publication Date: 1998-10-01
A Letter from a Gold Miner by S. Shufelt
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

Placerville, California, October 1850 with an introduction by Robert Glass Cleland.
Letters of the Pike's Peak Gold Rush by Libeus Barney
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

or, Early day letters from Auraria / Early-day letters by Libeus Barney, reprinted from the Bennington Banner, Vermont, 1859-1860. With an introd. by Thomas Hornsby Ferril and a facsim. of the famous Buell-Dillingham map of the Colorado gold region.
Life Sketches of a Jayhawker of '49 by L. Dow Stephens
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

Actually told by himself in his own way.
Mountains and Molehills; or, Recollections of a Burnt Journal by Frank Marryat
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Publication Date: 1855
One man's gold; the letters & journal of a forty-niner, Enos Christman by Enos Christman
Call Number: Online - Library of Congress

Compiled & edited by Florence Morrow Christman.
Seeing the Elephant; Letters of R. R. Taylor, Forty Niner by Rinaldo Rinaldini Taylor
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

edited by John Walton Caughey
Letters to the author's wife
Six Months in the Gold Mines by E. Gould Buffum
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South Pass, 1868, James Chisholm's journal of the Wyoming gold rush. by James Chisholm
Call Number: Boca Raton General Collection ; F767.F8 C48

Publication Date: 1960
Two years in the Klondike and Alaskan gold-fields, 1896-1898 a thrilling narrative of life in the gold mines and camps by William B. Haskell
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ISBN: 9780585186245

Publication Date: 1998-01-01

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