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  • 2.St. Joseph, April 21, 1849.*
  • 3.English Grove, 38 miles below Fort Kearny Monday, April 30, 1849.*
  • 4.Harney's Landing, May 2, 1849.*
  • 5.Lawson's Settlement, California, September 18, 1849. Sierra Nevada Mountains, September 13.*
  • 6.Sacramento City, Two miles from Sutter's Fort, September 30, 1849.
  • 7.Upper Diggings, Feather River, October 12, 1849.*
  • 8.Valley of the Sacramento, November 19, 1849.*
  • 9.Dawlytown, February 16, 1850.*
  • 10.Sacramento City, March 2, 1850.*
  • II.Ottawa Bar, March 12, 1850.*
  • 12.Ottawa Bar, Feather River,* March 22, 1850.
  • "September 16
  • "Nov. 12:
  • 13.Dawlytown, California, April 4, 1850.*
  • 14.Oleepa, May 8, 1850.*
  • 15.Oleepa, May 12th, 1850.*
  • "January 30.
  • 16.Yateston, June 14, 1850.*
  • 17.Dawlytown, June 25, 1850.*
  • 18.Stringtown, July 22, 1850.*
  • 19.Stringtown, Feather River, July 29, 1850.*
  • 20.Independence, September 1, 1850.*
  • 21.Independence, October 20, 1850.*
  • 22.Marysville, October 31, 1850.*
  • 23.Sacramento City, November 5, 1850.*
  • 24.San Francisco, November 15, 1850.*
  • 25.San Francisco, January 15, 1851.*
  • 26.San Francisco, April 1, 1851.*
  • 27.Grass Valley, Nevada County, June 11, 1851.*
  • 28.San Francisco, June 13, 1851.*
  • 29.Grass Valley, Sierra Nevada Quartz Mines, June 29, 1851.*
  • 30.San Francisco, August 1, 1851.*
  • 31.Sacramento City, August, 6, 1851.*
  • 32.Grass Valley, August 30, 1851.*
  • 33.Grass Valley, September 29, 1851.*
  • 34. Shasta City, October 20, 1851.*
  • 35.Parkman, Ohio, June, 1852.*
  • 36.Parkman, Ohio, August 1, 1852.*
  • Index

    • Alonzo Delano's California correspondence: being letters hitherto uncollected from the Ottawa (Illinois) Free Trader and the New Orleans True Delta, 1849-1952. Edited by Irving McKee. Maps by Stewart Mitchell. Decorations by Harry O. Diamond

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    This text is based on the following book(s):
    53-1743. Selected from the collections of the Library of Congress. A 85933.

    Born in Aurora, New York, Alonzo Delano (1806-1874) moved on to the Midwest as a teenager. July 1848 found him a consumptive Ottawa, Illinois, storekeeper, and he joined a local California Company. He remained in the West after the Gold Rush, winning fame as an early California humorist. Alonzo Delano's California correspondence (1952) is an annotated twentieth-century reprinting of his letters, April 1849-August 1852, to newspapers in his home town of New Orleans. They cover his voyage to St. Joseph and an overland journey to California; sojourns in Sacramento, Marysville, and San Francisco; and experiences as a storekeeper at Mud Hill, Stringtown, Gold Lake, and Grass Valley. Topics include quartz mining, crime and vigilantism, and real estate investment. In 1857, Delano revised and expanded these letters for his book Life on the plains and among the diggings.

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