Forty-niner: the extraordinary gold rush odyssey of Joseph Goldsborough Bruff

✍ Scribed by Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough;Lizzio, Kenneth P

Publisher: Countryman Press
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Series: American grit
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Experience the majesty and terror of the Gold Rush firsthand

While the seminal California Gold Rush of 1849 produced numerous firsthand diaries and accounts, Joseph Goldsborough Bruff'swidely regarded as the best and most accurateprovides the basis of this narrative reimagining of a quintessential American legend. Ken Lizzio traces the pioneer's thrilling adventure from the first rumors of gold, through his crossing of the frontier, all the way to his incredible survival and escape to a prosperous life back east. This is the first book to create a narrative of Bruff's journey from his meticulously written and preserved diary. And with more than fifty of Bruff's original pencil sketches and paintings, Forty-Niner provides a new, immersive vision of one of America's most fabled eras.The American Grit series brings you true tales of endurance, survival, and ingenuity from the annals of American history. These books focus on the trials of remarkable...

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✦ Subjects

Frontier and pioneer life;Gold mines and mining;Overland journeys to the Pacific;Biography;Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, -- 1804-1889;California -- Gold discoveries;California

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