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  • Preface
  • Contents
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  • Introduction
  • Good Luck! What is It?
  • THE FIRST NUGGET
  • THE FATHER OF PLACER MINING IN CALIFORNIA
  • HOW PLACER MINING WAS SPREAD
  • THE HALCYON DAYS OF '48
  • HOW THE PLACERS WERE WORKED
  • FREAK IDEAS OF PLACER MINING
  • HOW IT FEELS TO FIND GOLD THE FIRST TIME
  • SOME OF THE WORLD's BIG NUGGETS
  • SOME OF CALIFORNIA'S BIG NUGGETS
  • FREAK SHAPES OF NUGGETS
  • A FEW SMALLER NUGGETS AND BIG PAY
  • GOOD LUCK IN QUARTZ BOULDERS
  • GOOD LUCK IN DECOMPOSED QUARTZ SEAMS
  • GOOD LUCK IN QUARTZ VEINS
  • GOOD LUCK FOR MEXICANS
  • GOOD LUCK FOR FRENCHMEN
  • GOOD LUCK FOR JEWS
  • GOOD LUCK FOR CHINAMEN
  • GOOD LUCK FOR AN AMERICAN
  • LUCK IN MINING EXCITEMENTS
  • GOOD LUCK OF GAME HUNTERS
  • GOOD LUCK FOR NEWCOMERS
  • GOOD LUCK IN TOWNS
  • GOOD LUCK OF "GREENHORNS" vs. "SMART ALECKS"
  • JUST LUCK
  • LUCK IN BURIED GOLD
  • A BIG POKER GAME
  • INCIDENTS

    • The autobiography of Charles Peters, in 1915 the oldest pioneer living in California, who mined in ... the days of '49 ...; also historical happenings, interesting incidents and illustrations of the old mining towns in the good luck era, the placer mining days of the '50s

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    The Autobiography of Charles Peters

    In 1915 the Oldest Pioneer Living in California Who Mined in

    "The Days of Old, The Days of Gold, The Days of '49 ."

    Also Historical Happenings, Interesting Incidents and Illustrations of The Old Mining Towns in

    The Good Luck Era The Placer Mining Days of the '50s

    Price 50 Cents (Sent Postpaid) The LaGrave Co., Publishers P.O. Box 1077 .......... Sacramento, Cal.




    This text is based on the following book(s):
    19-10570. Selected from the collections of the Library of Congress. Not determined.

    Charles Peters, born in Portugal in 1825, first visited California in 1846 as a merchant seaman, returning three years later to seek gold at Columbia, Jackson Creek, and Mokelumne Hill. The autobiography of Charles Peters (n.d., ca. 1915) is the old man's brief memoir of his life through the 1850s, followed by a series of "Good Luck" stories, miscellaneous tales of the mining camps, a few of which seem to be credited to Peters although most are the work of another author, drawn from many sources.

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