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  • PREFACE.
  • THECALIFORNIA PIONEER SOCIETY.
  • THEADVENTURES OF A FORTY-NINER.
  • A FEW HISTORICAL ITEMS.
  • THE GAMBLING OF THAT DAY.
  • A BULL FIGHT.
  • JESUIT MISSION STATIONS.
  • SCENES ON THE PACIFIC OCEAN.
  • PERORATION.
  • DEATH OF A FORMER SCHOHARIAN.
  • APPENDIX.

    • The adventures of a forty-niner. An historic description of California, with events and ideas of San Francisco and its people in those early days. By Daniel Knower

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    THE

    ADVENTURES

    OF A

    FORTY-NINER.

    AN HISTORIC DESCRIPTION OF CALIFORNIA, WITH EVENTS

    AND IDEAS OF SAN FRANCISCO AND ITS PEOPLE

    IN THOSE EARLY DAYS.

    By DANIEL KNOWER.

    ALBANY:

    WEED-PARSONS PRINTING CO., PRINTERS.

    1894.




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    rc 01-801. Selected from the collections of the Library of Congress. 7216.

    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. The adventures of a forty-niner (1894) describes Knower's business and real estate speculations in San Francisco as well as an extended visit to a mining camp near Coloma and the life of prospectors there.

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