Literature of the California Gold Rush - Representative Works

REPRESENTATIVE WORKS

Warren Baer
The Duke of Sacramento (satire) 1856

Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
The Shirley Letters [as “Dame Shirley”] (letters) 1854-55; published in the journal Pioneer

Walter Colton
Three Years in California (journal) 1850

Alonzo Delano
Pen Knife Sketches, or Chips from the Old Block (sketches) 1853
Life on the Plains and Among the Diggings (journal) 1854
Old Block's Sketch Book, or Tales of California Life (sketches) 1856
A Live Woman in the Mines; or, Pike County Ahead (drama) 1857
Alonzo Delano's California Correspondence (letters) 1952

George Horatio Derby
Phoenixiana; or Sketches and Burlesques (sketches) 1855
Squibob Papers (prose) 1865

Hamlin Garland
Crumbling Idols (essays) 1894

Francis Bret Harte
The Work on Red Mountain (novella)...

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