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Hubert Howe Bancroft — History of California, vol. VI (1888)

By Hubert Howe Bancroft · HTML

Documents pre-Marshall gold at San Fernando (1842).

Key points

  • "about the only satisfactory instance on record of a knowledge of the existence of gold in Alta California prior to the discovery of Marshall."
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