SIX MONTHS IN THE GOLD MINES:
Reading edition
FROM A JOURNAL OF IN UPPER AND LOWER CALIFORNIA. 1847-8-9. BY E. GOULD BUFFUM, LIEUTENANT FIRST REGIMENT NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS. PHILADELPHIA: LEA AND BLANCHARD. 1850. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, BY LEA AND BLANCHARD, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. PHILADELPHIA: C. SHERMAN, PRINTER. TO JOHN CHARLES FRÉMONT, THE UNITED STATES SENATOR FIRST CHOSEN TO REPRESENT THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA: THE HISTORY OF WHOSE INVALUABLE PIONEER LABOURS WILL ENDURE AS LONG AS THE MOUNTAINS, VALLEYS, AND PLAINS WHICH HIS COURAGE AND INDOMITABLE ENTERPRISE EXPLORED, AND HIS GENIUS HAS ILLUSTRATED, BY PERMISSION, IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, BY THE AUTHOR.

