64 pp. (12mo) original pictorial wrappers. Front cover states "5th Edition, 25th Thousand", though the title page states "4th Edition, 18th Thousand."

Popular California Gold Rush songster comprising lyrics to several dozen California mining songs, such as The Fools of '49; Joaquin the Horse Thief; Away Up on the Yuba; California As It Is and Was; The Lousy Miner; the Sonora Filibusters; When I Went Off to Prospect; California Bloomer; Coming Around the Horn; etc. Cover illustration depicts in three small vignettes the "arrival of a greenhorn" miner. "Much of the flavor of the gold days, as well as the era's pathos and humor, pervades these ephemeral little publications" - Wheat. Cowan (I), p. 183. Greenwood 983 & 984. Wheat 162.