An Albany, New York, physician, Daniel Knower (b. ca. 1818) sailed for California in 1849 with twelve prefabricated frame houses for the San Francisco market. T

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Adventures of a Forty-niner" (An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of Sa

Chauncey de Leon Canfield (1843-1909) first published "The diary of a forty-niner" in 1906, and 1,200 of the 2,000 copies in that edition were burned. Joseph Ga

California during the gold rush was a place of disputed claims, shoot-outs, gambling halls, and prostitution; a place populated by that rough and rebellious fig

Andy and his father face many hardships as forty-niners, searching for gold in the hills of California. Cover-to-Cover Chapter Book.