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University of California Press William Perkins's Journal of Life at Sonora, 1849 - 1852: Three Years in California

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William Perkins’s Journal of Life at Sonora, 1849–1852 opens a vivid, ground-level window onto the California Gold Rush that few Forty-niner narratives even attempt. Where most memoirs climax at landfall, Perkins “opens up like a flower in the sun” only after reaching the diggings, delivering a sustained, seen-from-within chronicle of Sonora―the uniquely cosmopolitan “Sonoranian Camp” of the Southern Mines. Edited and annotated by Dale L. Morgan and James R. Scobie, this definitive edition restores a voice long relegated to a footnote: an early Sonora merchant and town official with a reporter’s eye for social texture. Perkins writes from the streets and sluices of a boomtown remarkable for its foreign-born communities and―exceptionally for mining camps―its numerous women, from Sonoran and Chilean families to later French arrivals. The result is not merely a ledger of ounces and claims, but a sociological portrait in motion, alive to manners, languages, conflicts, and convivialities that made Sonora unlike any other camp. The editors frame Perkins’s Sonora years with a gripping prelude: the company’s lesser-traveled crossing through Mexico in 1849, juxtaposed with the tart, often contradictory on-the-spot account by fellow traveler Samuel McNeil. Storm-tossed steamers, cholera-shadowed waystations, mule trains over Durango’s high sierra―these pages contextualize the “arrival” that Gold Rush literature typically treats as an endpoint. Morgan and Scobie’s introduction and notes sift names, dates, and local lore with archival rigor, clarifying contested biographical details and situating Perkins alongside the era’s immigrant networks and emergent institutions. For historians of the West, readers of travel writing, and anyone seeking the lived complexity behind Gold Rush myth, this book turns a little-known diarist into a central witness―one whose luminous, often surprising observations permanently enlarge the story of California’s Southern Mines. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1964.

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Brand: University of California Press
Format: paperback
ASIN: 0520327756
Category: Books > Subjects > History > World History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 27 August 2021
Listed Since: 18 May 2020

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