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    • California letters of Lucius Fairchild

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    PUBLICATIONS OF THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN

    EDITED BY JOSEPH SCHAFER SUPERINTENDENT OF THE SOCIETY

    CALIFORNIA LETTERS OF LUCIUS FAIRCHILD




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    31-33125. Selected from the collections of the Library of Congress. Not determined.

    Lucius Fairchild (1831-1896) left Madison, Wisconsin, for California in 1849 and remained in the West until 1858. On his return to Wisconsin, Fairchild carved out a remarkable career as a soldier-politician: serving in a Wisconsin regiment in the Civil War, winning election as governor in 1866, and then representing the United States abroad in a variety of diplomatic posts. California letters of Lucius Fairchild (1931) records his overland journey to California, gold prospecting from Calaveras County to Scott Valley, business partnership with Elijah Steele in farming, mining, and butchering in Scott Valley.

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