The California Gold Discovery: Sources, Documents, Accounts and Memoirs Relating to the Discovery of Gold at Sutter's Mill

Georgetown, CA: The Talisman Press, 1966. First Edition. 237pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] 1/2 black buckram over marbled boards. Housed in a double slipcase covered in red and green cloth. Paper label on green slipcase. Book in near fine condition with the slipcases showing minor rubbing at the corners. This edition was limited to 100 signed numbered copies, this is copy 20. Fold-out panorama of Coloma present at the rear free endsheet. The most comprehensive book ever published on the California gold discovery, containing a detailed mass of accounts and sources relating to that momentous event. All known accounts by the particpants in the gold discovery are here, including variant accounts by Marshall, Bigler, Brown, and Wimmer, plus the related testimony of Capt. Sutter. Kurutz 485. (Inventory #: 10160)