A FRENCH JOURNALIST IN THE CALIFORNIA GOLD FIELDS: The Letters of Etienne Derbec.
Georgetown, Calif. Talisman Press, 1964. First edition. Edition limited to 750 copies. Original olive-green cloth; quarto; 258 pp. Fronitispiece, 2 illustrations, map endpapers. A fine book, entirely clean and unworn, in fairly worn jacket. Item #22935
Considered the best account of French participation in the California gold rush. 4 of the 13 letters translated here were written from San Francsico, where Derbec later edited a French-language newsaper - "Echo du Pacifique" - the others from the mining districts. Kurutz 190.
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