![]() ![]() The impression is less of gold fever, more of American getup-and-go. From these accounts, the letters Swain's family wrote to him, and other, supplementary firsthand sources, Holliday has reconstructed the total experience of the goldseekers-through their (often) empty-handed return home-in unprecedented, absorbing, illuminating detail. ![]() preparatory to leaving home on my long journey"" to the California gold-fields for 203 days he faithfully kept his diary-leaving off still short of his destination-and, then and thereafter, wrote long letters home. On April 11, 1849, William Swain, of Youngstown in upstate New York, ""rose early. ![]()
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