Title: The Journals of Alfred Doten, 1849-1903 Author: Doten, Alfred Place: Reno, NV Publisher: University of Nevada Press Date: 1973 Description: 3 volumes. Edited by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. Plates from engravings, photographs, maps, etc. Cloth, slipcase. First Edition. Alfred Doten sailed around the Horn from Plymouth, Mass, in 1849, at age 19, mined and ranched in the Sierras before taking a job on the Virginia City Daily Union in 1865, beginning a 39-year journalism career. Kurutz notes that Doten "mined for gold in and around Rich Gulch, Lower Bar, and Spanish Gulch in the region of the Calaveras and Mokelumne Rivers. Throughout, Doten provides amazingly detailed descriptions of life in the Mother Lode." Paher calls him "Nevada's premier diarist." Kurutz 201; Paher 491. Lot Amendments Condition: Some wear and rubbing to case and cloth; near fine volumes in very good slipcase. Item number: 271317
Title: The Journals of Alfred Doten, 1849-1903 Author: Doten, Alfred Place: Reno, NV Publisher: University of Nevada Press Date: 1973 Description: 3 volumes. Edited by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. Plates from engravings, photographs, maps, etc. Cloth, slipcase. First Edition. Alfred Doten sailed around the Horn from Plymouth, Mass, in 1849, at age 19, mined and ranched in the Sierras before taking a job on the Virginia City Daily Union in 1865, beginning a 39-year journalism career. Kurutz notes that Doten "mined for gold in and around Rich Gulch, Lower Bar, and Spanish Gulch in the region of the Calaveras and Mokelumne Rivers. Throughout, Doten provides amazingly detailed descriptions of life in the Mother Lode." Paher calls him "Nevada's premier diarist." Kurutz 201; Paher 491. Lot Amendments Condition: Some wear and rubbing to case and cloth; near fine volumes in very good slipcase. Item number: 271317
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