Notes on a trip to California, and life in the mines 1849-1853

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Title: Notes on a trip to California, and life in the mines 1849-1853
Creator: Stuart, Joseph Alonzo, b. 1825
Abstract: The diary describes an 1849 overland journey to St. Joseph by rail and boat, and then by mule to California. The diary describes two years in the mines and Stuart's return to Lowell, Massachusetts, by way of Nicaragua. In 1851 he set out for Nicaragua and California where he remained until 1853. The manuscript is part diary and part memoir, and is illustrated with pen and ink sketches and pictures clipped from other sources
Description: In 1849 Stuart joined the Granite State and California Mining and Trading Company of Boston, which combined with the Mt. Washington Company of Boston.
Extent: 2 v. (206 p. in 1 case);
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Personal narratives
Pictorial works
Diaries United States
Sketches United States
Memoirs United States
Overland journeys to the Pacific
Material: illus.
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): California.
California
West (U.S.)
Subject (Name): Stuart, Joseph Alonzo, b. 1825.
Granite State and California Mining and Trading Company.
Mt. Washington Company.
Subject (Topic): Frontier and pioneer life
Gold mines and mining
Ocean travel
Overland journeys to the Pacific
Voyages to the Pacific coast
Description and travel
Gold discoveries
Subjects: Stuart, Joseph Alonzo, b. 1825
Granite State and California Mining and Trading Company
Mt. Washington Company
Frontier and pioneer life > California
Gold mines and mining > California
Ocean travel
Overland journeys to the Pacific
Voyages to the Pacific coast
California > Description and travel
California > Gold discoveries > Personal narratives
West (U.S.) > Description and travel
West (U.S.) > Pictorial works
United States
California
Overland journeys to the Pacific > 1849

Access: Public
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Citation: Joseph Alonzo Stuart, Notes on a Trip to California. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.