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    <nonSort>The </nonSort>
    <title>adventures of a forty-niner</title>
    <subTitle>An historic description of California, with events and ideas of San Francisco and its people in those early days</subTitle>
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  <titleInfo type="alternative">
    <title>Days of the forty-niners</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Knower, Daniel.</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Albany</placeTerm>
    </place>
    <publisher>Weed-Parsons printing co.</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1894</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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    <extent>200 p. plates, ports., facsim. 19 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>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 business and real estate speculations in San Francisco as well as an extended visit to a mining camp near Coloma and the life of prospectors there.</abstract>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">By Daniel Knower.</note>
  <note>Spine title: The days of the forty-niners.</note>
  <note>Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.</note>
  <note>No known restrictions on publication.</note>
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    <geographic>California</geographic>
    <topic>Gold discoveries</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>California</geographic>
    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>San Francisco (Calif.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Urbanization</topic>
    <geographic>California</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Real estate development</topic>
    <geographic>California</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Business</topic>
    <geographic>California</geographic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">F865 .K7</classification>
  <identifier type="lccn">rc 01000801</identifier>
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  <accessCondition type="useAndReproduction">No known restrictions on publication.</accessCondition>
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