Somewhere in this book I must write a paragraph exclusively about myself. The fact that in the outcome of all these stirring events I have ended as a mere bookkeeper is perhaps a good reason why one paragraph will be enough. In my youth I had dreams a-plenty; but the event and the peculiar twist of my own temperament prevented their fulfilment. Perhaps in a more squeamish age-and yet that is not fair, either, to the men whose destinies I am trying to record. Suffice it then that of these men I have been the friend and ...
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Somewhere in this book I must write a paragraph exclusively about myself. The fact that in the outcome of all these stirring events I have ended as a mere bookkeeper is perhaps a good reason why one paragraph will be enough. In my youth I had dreams a-plenty; but the event and the peculiar twist of my own temperament prevented their fulfilment. Perhaps in a more squeamish age-and yet that is not fair, either, to the men whose destinies I am trying to record. Suffice it then that of these men I have been the friend and companion, of these occasions I have been a part, and that the very lacks and reservations of my own character that have kept me to a subordinate position and a little garden have probably made me the better spectator. Which is a longer paragraph about myself than I had purposed writing. Therefore I will pass over briefly the various reasons, romantic and practical, why I decided to join the gold rush to California in the year . It was in the air; and I was then of a romantic and adventurous disposition. The first news of the gold discovery filtered to us in a roundabout way through vessels to the Sandwich Islands, and then appeared again in the columns of some Baltimore paper. Everybody laughed at the rumour; but everybody remembered it. The land was infinitely remote; and then, as now, romance increases as the square of the distance. There might well be gold there; but more authentic were the reports of fleas, rawhides, and a dried-up coast. Minstrel shows made a good deal of fun of it all, I remember. Then, when we were of a broad grin, came the publication of the letter written by Governor Mason to the War Department. That was a sober official document, and had to be believed, but it read like a fairy tale. "I have no hesitation in saying," wrote the governor, "that there is more gold in the country drained by the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers than would pay the costs of the late war with Mexico a hundred times over." And he then went on to report in detail big nuggets and big washings, mentioning men, places, dates, in a circumstantial manner that carried conviction. Our broad grins faded. The minstrels' jokes changed colour. As I look back, it seems to me that I can almost see with the physical eye the broad restless upheaval beneath the surface of all society. The Mexican war was just over, and the veterans-young veterans all-filled with the spirit of adventure turned eagerly toward this glittering new emprise. Out in the small villages, on the small farms, the news was talked over seriously, almost without excitement, as offering a possible means of lifting the burden war had laid. Families strained their resources, mortgaged their possessions, to equip and send their single strongest members to make the common fortune.
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Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall. Doubleday Page & Co., 1913, 8vo, 437 pages. Frontis with 3 additional glossy illustrations. Hardcover edition bound in a decorated rust colored cloth, no dust jacket, else book very good.
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Very Good+ Book On cover: two men pan for gold. At back: Essay on the author by EugeneF. Saxton. Illus. by Norman Rockwell's teacher. Nice! Thomas Fogarty artwork. very good+, no dj, handsome pict. olive cloth. Tight, solid 437 + 13 pgs.
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Thomas Fogarty, Illustrator. Near Fine. No Dustjacket. Book Doubleday Page & Co., 1922. Near FIne/No Dustjacket. Thomas Fogarty, Illustrator. Very clean red leather boards with gilt decorative title box on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Near perfect condition, no soiling or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Decorative endpapers. Previous owner name neatly penned on reverse side of front free endpaper. Pages and edges are clean and bright. 437 pgs. Illustrated.
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Fair. Cover and edges shows wear and tanning. Loose hinge. Former owner's name on front page. Pages 21 and 22 shows wear. Pages shows minor tanning. Over 500, 000 Internet Orders FIlled.