Author : John Clarke Jaques
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ISBN 13 :
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Book Synopsis John Clarke Jaques Letters by : John Clarke Jaques
Download or read book John Clarke Jaques Letters written by John Clarke Jaques and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventy-six original letters and transcriptions of seventy-seven letters (transcribed by Joan Jaques Sextro, great-great granddaughter of John Clarke Jaques) documenting in detail John Clarke Jaques' land/sea voyage to San Francisco and his experience as a miner in various locations in California between 1849 and 1852. The letters are mostly addressed to Jaques' wife, Susan, and sent in care of John Dikeman (Susan's father) in Brooklyn, New York. The letters begin in June 1849 , first documenting John Clarke Jaques' trip via steamer to Panama, his journey across the Isthmus, and his voyage via steamer to San Francisco. Included are two drawings by Jaques of his trip by donkey across the Isthmus. The letters continue in September and October 1849 from Mormon Island and Coloma, California. Between November 1849 and July 1850, Jaques is writing to his wife from San Francisco. By August 1850, he is in Middle Fork of the American River and in Georgetown. Between September 28, 1850 and January 10, 1851, he is writing again from San Francisco. During most of 1851, Jaques is in a range of places in the gold country, including Spanish Dry Diggings, Middle Fork, Shinanigan Bar, and Canion Creek. By November 23, 1851, Jaques is at Yankee Jim's Dry Diggings in Placer County. Jaques dies at Yankee Jim's Dry Diggings on May 23, 1852. The final letter in the collection, from a man named Achilles Wilkerson, provides Jaques' wife with the details of her husband's last days and his death.