LYMAN, Albert.

Journal of A Voyage to California, and Life in the Gold Diggins. And

Item #72611

LYMAN, Albert. Journal of A Voyage to California, and Life in the Gold Diggins. And Also of A Voyage from California to the Sandwich Islands. Hartford. 1852. 192pp., including in-text illustrations. Original illustrated wrappers. Spine and corners renewed. Internally clean. Very good. In a cloth box, leather spine label lettered in gilt. Lyman, member of the Connecticut Mining and Trading Company, sailed to Sacramento in August 1849 to participate in the California Gold Rush. As with many who went west during the gold rush, he made much more money as a merchant than as a miner, helping to establish stores at Sacramento and at the Mormon Island diggings. He relates his experiences there, as well as his impressions of the mines. Lyman also includes a list of the members of the Connecticut Company, steamboat routes to California and from Stockton to the various diggings, and an approximation of the total gold extracted from the mines in 1849-50. The final thirty pages comprise the journal of a voyage to Hawaii which he undertook in January 1850. "The narrative is of particular interest for its accounts of short visits to the islands of Kauai and Niihau" - Forbes. A rare gold rush narrative and Pacific voyage. STREETER SALE 2715. HILL, p.481. HOWES L577, "b." KURUTZ 411. COWAN, p.145. WHEAT GOLD RUSH, 129. ROCQ 15926. EBERSTADT 115:661. FORBES HAWAII 1887.

Price: $4,000.00