DeGROOT, Henry

Recollections of California Mining Life

Item #52441

DeGROOT, Henry. Recollections of California Mining Life. Primitive Placers and First Important Discovery Gold. The Pioneers of the Pioneers--Their Fortune and Their Fate. Written for the Mining and Scientific Press. San Francisco: Dewey & co., Office Mining and Scientific Press, 1884. 1st ed. 16 pp. Illus. Orig. pictorial wrappers. Fine in a custom cloth folder and 1/4-morocco and cloth slipcase. HOWES D-220 (mentioned but not described). Cowan, pp. 162-163. Very scarce; rare in such superb condition. A history of the California Gold Rush by a noted journalist and participant. Henry DeGroot (1815-1893) was working for the New York Tribune in 1849 when he was sent to cover the California Gold Rush. He became in gold mining himself for a time, remained in the West and continued working as a newspaperman for the evening Bulletin and the Sacrement Union. In 1858, during the Fraser Gold Rush, he traveled to British Columbia and published British Columbia: Its Conditions and Prospects (1859). He was also the author of Sketches of the Washoe silver Mines (1860), and the "earliest tract on Nevada"--Howes. DeGroot gave Lake Tahoe its name, using an Indian name meaning "high or big water" Streeter V, 2985. Jean Hersholt's copy with his bookplates on the inside of the prootective cloth folder. Hersholt (1886-1956) was a Danish-born actor who worked in Hollywood for over 30 years in both silent and talking filmes. He was an avid book collector, particularly of Han Christian Andersen, and translated many of Andersen's tales into English. these were published as The Complete Andersen (6 vols., 1949). Hersholt is remembered annually at the Academy Awards by its Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

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