MARC Record from Library of Congress

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050 00 $aF865$b.B93
050 00 $aMicrofilm 01291 reel 249, no. 2 E
051 $aF865$b.B93 Copy 2$cCopy 2.
100 1 $aBuffum, E. Gould$q(Edward Gould),$d1820-1867.
245 10 $aSix months in the gold mines:$bfrom a journal of three years' residence in Upper and Lower California. 1847-8-9.$cBy E. Gould Buffum ...
260 $aPhiladelphia,$bLea and Blanchard,$c1850.
300 $a2 p.l., [ix]-xxiv, [25]-172 p.$c19 cm.
440 0 $aAmerican culture series ;$v249:2
520 $aEdward Gould Buffum (1820-1867), a New York journalist, came to California as an officer in the 7th Regiment of N.Y. Volunteers during the Mexican War. He stayed on to seek gold and edit a California newspaper before returning east to become Paris correspondent of the New York Herald. Six months in the gold mines (1850) is Buffum's vivid account of his regiment's voyage west in 1846 to help secure California for the United States. He describes his discharge from the army in Monterey and his subsequent adventures as a gold seeker, sailing up the Sacramento to reach the Sierra Nevadas above Sutter's Fort. He describes prospecting along the Bear and Yuba Rivers, Weber Creek, and Middle and South Forks of the American River, Foster's Bar, and Weaver's Creek, 1848-1849. He concludes with the story of his work for Alta California in San Francisco and the growth of San Francisco.
533 $aMicrofilm.$bAnn Arbor, Mich.,$cUniversity Microfilms,$d1964.$e1 reel. 35mm
530 $aAlso available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
540 $aNo known restrictions on publication.
651 0 $aCalifornia$xGold discoveries.
651 0 $aBaja California (Mexico : Peninsula)$xDescription and travel.
650 0 $aLaw$xPolitical aspects$zCalifornia.
856 41 $dcalbk$f068$qt$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/calbk.068