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First printing, a large trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. More than just an annotated reprint of this fascinating account of life in gold rush California - in Sacramento and in Nevada City and of the years after the gold rush, as her family settled in the Vaca Valley area - (an account originally published as a series of newspaper articles in 1881 and as a book in 1937), this book is a carefully researched study, which puts Wilson's memoirs into historical context, supports and expands its descriptions, and is a history of the Wilson family as a whole. SIGNED on the title page by Henry and dated in 2004. Introduction By Gary Kurutz. Illustrated with many vintage photographs and drawings, Bibliography, index. xi, 223 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. .ISBN # 1-887694-529 

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