138 pages 6 inches x 9 inches. Soft cover and text are clean, spine is square, binding is firm. Pages are unmarked and bright with no stains or tears.
Author is a journalist and the Great-Great-Granddaughter of John Berry Hill.
Book chronicles Hill's trip in 1850 across the Plains to the California gold fields, and his life as a gold miner in the many gold camps and mining areas during the great Gold Rush era. He was one of the few who struck it rich, and the story continues with his life after he returned to his home state, Illinois.
Mostly first-person accounts from Hill and his family members.

Book is new, with no notable flaws.
Nonfiction California Gold Rush forty-niners miners mining camps history paperback book.

From a private collection.

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