Gold mines and mining
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
John Prichet journals
Collection
Identifier: L130
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of three hand written journals (1849-1851) of John Prichet describing his journey from Indiana to California during the Gold Rush. His journals cover his trip from Centreville, Indiana to California by steamboat on the Ohio and Missouri rivers, and overland from Independence, Missouri to California using the Truckee River route; his life in the mining camps near Yuba City and Sacramento, California; and his return trip by ship from San Francisco through Panama, to New...
Dates:
1849-1851
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John Prichet journals
Lucy Campbell newspaper clippings
Collection — Folder S0214
Identifier: S0214
Scope and Contents
Lucy Campbell collected ten newspaper clippings from the Indianapolis Star published in October 1930 in Kate Milner Rabb’s column “A Hoosier Listening Post.” The articles reprinted letters from “Dr. James T. Lowry, husband of the aunt of Miss Lucy Campbell” about the journey that he and his friend made to the California gold fields in 1850. Traveling with James Lowry was T. H. Adams. The young men (ages 22 and 24) were from Perryville, Vermillion County, Indiana. Their trip began in St. Louis...
Dates:
1850-1858
Theophilus Adam Wylie letters
Collection — Folder S1469
Identifier: S1469
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises two letters from Theophilus Adam Wylie in Bloomington, Indiana in 1850 regarding the discovery of gold in Indiana between Wylie and Professor John F. Frazer at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Dates:
1850
Washington Conley diary
Collection — Folder S2563
Identifier: S2563
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the diary kept by Washington Conley during his trip to the gold fields of Colorado. The diary begins on April 9, 1860, the day Conley set out from his home in Greenfield, Indiana and ends with his last entry on August, 28, 1860 upon his return to the Midwest and his arrival at Mattoon, Illinois.
Dates:
1860
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Washington Conley diary
William L. Brown papers
Collection — Folder S181
Identifier: S0181
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typed copy on onionskin paper of a letter from William L. Brown in California ranging 1850/10/12 regarding gold mining, cattle raising, men from Indiana, wages and Sacramento.
Dates:
1850/10/12
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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William L. Brown papers
