A Frenchman in the gold rush; the journal of Ernest de Massey, argonaut of 1849,

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.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

A Gil Blas in California.

Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) was one of France's most acclaimed novelists of the nineteenth century. A Gil Blas in California (1933) is an English translation of a work first published in Brussels in 1852, with Dumas presenting it as his rendering of a young Frenchman's firsthand account of his adventures in the California Gold Rush. Many critics doubt its claims as a work of non-fiction. The tale covers a voyage round the Horn from Le Havre, life at French Camp, San Francisco fires, California farming and wildlife, hunting trips near Sonoma and in the Mariposa Valley, and a visit to San José."A limited edition of 500 copies".Head-pieces."Translated by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur, foreword by Phil Townsend Hanna, wood engravings by Paul Landacre.

A pioneer at Sutter's fort, 1846-1850; the adventures of Heinrich Lienhard ...

Heinrich Lienhard (1822-1903), son of a Swiss farmer, sailed for America in 1843. After three years in the Midwest, Lienhard and four other young European immigrants set off by wagon for California, reaching Johann Sutter's New Helvetia in October 1846. After a few months in the U.S. Army, Lienhard returned to Sutter's settlement. In 1849 Lienhard returned to Switzerland to accompany Sutter's family to the New World. Disillusioned by the changed California he found in early 1850, Lienhard returned to Switzerland in July. A pioneer at Sutter's fort (1941) is based on a diary kept in his years in California and focuses on Johann Sutter, his family, and his settlement on the Sacramento. It also covers Lienhard's experiences as a farmer and a miner and his crossings of Panama and the Atlantic in 1849-1850.Map on lining-papers.A German edition was published in Switzerland in 1898 under title: California unmittelbar vor und nach der entdeckung des goldes. cf. p. xiv.Bibliography: p. 276-277