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Forty-Niner
Ken Lizzio
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Description for Forty-Niner
Hardback. Experience the majesty and terror of the Gold Rush firsthand Series: American Grit. Num Pages: 288 pages, 50 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: WT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. Weight in Grams: 666.
While the seminal California Gold Rush of 1849 produced numerous firsthand diaries and accounts, Joseph Goldsborough Bruff’s—widely regarded as the best and most accurate—provides the basis of this narrative reimagining of a quintessential American legend. Ken Lizzio traces the pioneer’s thrilling adventure from the first rumors of gold, through his crossing of the frontier, all the way to his incredible survival and escape to a prosperous life back east. This is the first book to create a narrative of Bruff’s journey from his meticulously written and preserved diary. And with more than fifty of Bruff’s original pencil sketches and paintings, ... Read more
While the seminal California Gold Rush of 1849 produced numerous firsthand diaries and accounts, Joseph Goldsborough Bruff’s—widely regarded as the best and most accurate—provides the basis of this narrative reimagining of a quintessential American legend. Ken Lizzio traces the pioneer’s thrilling adventure from the first rumors of gold, through his crossing of the frontier, all the way to his incredible survival and escape to a prosperous life back east. This is the first book to create a narrative of Bruff’s journey from his meticulously written and preserved diary. And with more than fifty of Bruff’s original pencil sketches and paintings, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
American Grit
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Woodstock, United States
ISBN
9781682680506
SKU
V9781682680506
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Ref
99-15
About Ken Lizzio
Ken Lizzio is a professor of anthropology, having taught and Winthrop and James Madison Universities. He is the author of Embattled Saints: My Year with the Sufis or Afghanistan, an ethnography of an Islamic mystical brotherhood that won the IBPA’s 2015 Ben Franklin Silver Award. He lives in Bayse, Virginia.
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