Ghost Towns and Relics of ’49

Stockton, California: Stockton Chamber of Commerce, (1946).

Price: $25.00

Softcover. First edition. Quarto. Stapled pictorial wrappers. 31pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs, double-page map. Near fine with light crease on front wrap. Central California Valley east of Stockton, roughly Mariposa to Placerville, during the gold rush. Small narratives on Francis Bret Harte, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), and Capt. Charles M. Weber in rear.

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Item #359293 Ghost Towns and Relics of ’49. Francis Bret HARTE, Mark Twain.

Bret Harte
birth name: Francis Brett Harte
born: 8/25/1836
died: 5/5/1902

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American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. Born in Albany, New York, he moved to California in 1854, later working there in a number of capacities, including miner, teacher, messenger, and journalist.more