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William Perkins
Three Years in California: William Perkins' Journal of Life at Sonora, 1849-1852
University of California Press 1964
First English language edition
Price $24.99
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With an Introduction and Annotations by Dale L. Morgan and James R. Scobie. 424pp. Photographic illustrations from early drawings and lithographs, facsimile of the original journal, etc. Appendix and index.
Perkins arrived in California in 1849, went to the southern gold fields near Sonora & worked as a miner, later becoming a storekeeper and merchant. A lively account of life in Sonora. "Perkins originally wrote this manuscript around 1862 after moving to Argentina. in 1937 a Spanish translation was published in Buenos Aires with a reduced text. For this new edition, Morgan and Scobie made a fresh transcription of the original English manuscript, filled in missing pages by translating the Spanish version back into English, and added three of Perkins' Sonora letters" (Kurutz). [Kurutz: 496-b].
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