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    • The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. By David Rohrer Leeper

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    THE
    ARGONAUTS OF 'FORTY-NINE
    SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF THE PLAINS AND THE DIGGINGS
    BY
    DAVID ROHRER LEEPER

    ILLUSTRATED
    BY O. MARION ELBEL, FROM SELECTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
    BY THE AUTHOR
    "Golden days, remembered days,
    The days of 'Forty-Nine"

    SOUTH BEND, INDIANA
    J. B. STOLL & COMPANY, PRINTERS
    1894




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    rc 01-803. Selected from the collections of the Library of Congress. 43895.

    David Leeper (1832-1900) left South Bend, Indiana, for an overland trip to the California gold fields in February 1849. The argonauts of forty-nine (1894) details Leeper's journey west and his life in California, 1849-1854: prospecting at Redding's Diggings, Hangtown, and the Trinity River; lumbering around Eureka; and early Sacramento and Humboldt Bay. Leeper shows special interest in the Digger Indians, illustrating the book with sketches of tribal garb in his personal collection.

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