California Gold Rush, 1848-1852
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
John H. Towner collection
Collection — Folder S1317
Identifier: S1317
Scope and Contents
This collection includes three copies of an account from John H. Towner in Indiana--including a bound photostat, loose photostats, and xeroxed pages of the preface and first chapter--regarding his trip to the California Gold Rush during 1849-1850. The last entry is about his visit to the Art Union gallery in Cincinnati and the Greek slave statue, which was on exhibit there.
Dates:
1849-1850
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John H. Towner collection
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
Porter-Griffin family papers
Collection
Identifier: L535
Scope and Contents
This is a collection of 46 manuscript boxes, 1 clamshell box, 118 ledgers, and 3 oversized folders, arranged in 8 series. The collection consists of papers of William A. Porter and his heirs from 1813 to 1979, as well papers from the Griffin and McGrain Company. Materials include personal correspondence, business and legal correspondence, political publications and letters, business ledgers, school and local entertainment programs, programs form various churches and their activities in Corydon...
Dates:
1813-1979
R. B. Laughlin diary
Collection — Folder S2910
Identifier: S2910
Scope and Contents
This is a typed copy of the diary which R. B. Laughlin kept during the trip. The first entry is April 5, 1849, in which he lists the men of the Evansville Mining Company who left on the steamboat Embassy for St. Louis, where they arrived on April 9. Some things were stolen from them. They left from St. Joseph, Missouri, on April 20.On May 1, the Evansville Mining Company joined the Cincinnati Company “and made our start for California.” They traveled 12 miles that day. On May 3,...
Dates:
1849
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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R. B. Laughlin diary
Septer Patrick, California Gold Rush article
Collection — Folder S2639
Identifier: S2639
Scope and Contents
The collection contains 11-typed pages copied from the Wabash Courier in Terre Haute, Indiana. The reprints give the date, page, and column of the newspaper in which the items were published from 1848 through 1850. The stories pertain to Dr. Septer Patrick who, with his son Henry Clay (later called Septer Clay) Patrick), left Terre Haute for the California Gold Rush on April 7, 1849.The first page is about “The Prairie Car,” which was a train car used...
Dates:
1848-1850
Thomas Walke letter
Collection — Folder S1349
Identifier: S1349
Scope and Contents
This letter from Thomas Walke to his father Anthony Walke in Chillicothe, Ohio, was privately printed by David K. Webb, who was in charge of The Ohio Place Name Project at the Ross County Historical Society, Chillicothe, Ohio. The letter was printed in the "Daily Scioto Gazette" on June 17, 1850. The printed letter is two pages. Thomas wrote about the California Gold Rush. He lived in the small town of Coloma on the South Fork of the American River, 50 miles from Sacramento. He wrote: "Gold is...
Dates:
1850
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Thomas Walke letter
