Early California during the '49 Gold Rush Days. More than 150 years have passed since young Thomas Edwin Farish stepped off a ship's plank onto the rich California soil to join the pioneers who had been drawn to California by discovery of gold. But within this book we can go back in time and experience those pioneer days of the '49 Gold Rush alongside him. Thomas Farish was a pioneer, gold miner, a politician, an author, and much more, and in the last years of his life, just prior to his death in 1919, he was the State of Arizona Historian. He witnessed and was a participant in a time when...