Explanatory text by Jane Bissell Grabhorn. Illustrated with reproductions of maps, broadsides, letter sheets and lithographs; decorative initials by Arvilla Parker. 11x7½, cloth-backed glossy boards, paper spine label. One of 550 copies.

Inscribed by Edwin Grabhorn on the copyright-page with his initials "for Alice & John [Robertson] - E.G." Barrington sailed to Caifornia in 1850 aboard the barque Paoli, and his diary covers the latter part of the voyage plus life in the mines. Another dissappointed miner, he sold his share of his claim in October, 1850, and returned home via the Isthmus. The remainder of the volume "features well-written and detailed letters from the mines by a variety of Argonauts. The handsome reproductions of broadsides, letter sheets, maps, and prints embellish the text" - Kurutz 283; Rocq 15837; Wheat Gold Rush 84.