An edition of The adventures of a forty-niner
(1894)
The adventures of a forty-niner
An historic description of California, with events and ideas of San Francisco and its people in those early days.
by Daniel Knower
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An Albany, New York, physician, Daniel Knower (b. ca. 1818) sailed for California in 1849 with twelve prefabricated frame houses for the San Francisco market. The adventures of a forty-niner (1894) describes Knower's business and real estate speculations in San Francisco as well as an extended visit to a mining camp near Coloma and the life of prospectors there.
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Spine title: The days of the forty-niners.
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"THE WRITER was practising his profession in the city of Albany, his native place, in 1848, when reports came of the discovery of gold in California."
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