William Perkins's Journal of Life at Sonora, 1849 - 1852: Three Years in California

William Perkins’s Journal of Life at Sonora, 1849–1852 opens a vivid, ground-level window onto the California Gold Rush that few Forty-niner narratives even attempt. Where most memoirs climax at landfall, Perkins “opens up like a flower in the sun” only after reaching the diggings, delivering a sustained, seen-from-within chronicle of Sonora—the uniquely cosmopolitan “Sonoranian Camp” of the Southern Mines. Edited and annotated by Dale L. Morgan and James R. Scobie, this definitive edition ...