first edition
1966 · Georgetown, CA
by Paul, Rodman W.
Georgetown, CA: The Talisman Press, 1966. First Edition. 237pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] 1/2 Burgundy cloth over tan boards. Fine/Fine. The most comprehensive book ever published on the California gold discovery, containing a detailed mass of accounts and sources relating to that momentous event. All known accounts by the particpants in the gold discovery are here, including variant accounts by Marshall, Bigler, Brown, and Wimmer, plus the related testimony of Capt. Sutter. Kurutz 485.
(Inventory #: 10136)