The adventures of a forty-niner vs Three years in California [1846-1849]: Which Should You Read?

The adventures of a forty-niner Daniel Knower · 1894 120 pages · ≈ 2 h 13 m · Challenging

“THE WRITER was practising his profession in the city of Albany, his native place, in 1848, when reports came of the discovery of gold in California.”

An Albany, New York, physician, Daniel Knower (b. ca. 1818) sailed for California in 1849 with twelve prefabricated frame houses for the San Francisco market. The adventures of a forty-niner (1894) describes Knower's…

Three years in California [1846-1849] Walter Colton · 1850 456 pages · ≈ 8 h 27 m · Challenging

Walter Colton (1797-1851) of Vermont had a career as clergyman and journalist before sailing to California as naval chaplain of the Congress. In July 1846, Commodore Stockton named him alcalde of Monterey, a post to…