TY - BOOK AU - Knower,Daniel TI - The adventures of a forty-niner: An historic description of California, with events and ideas of San Francisco and its people in those early days AV - F865 .K7 PY - 1894/// CY - Albany PB - Weed-Parsons printing co. KW - Urbanization KW - California KW - Real estate development KW - Business KW - Gold discoveries KW - Description and travel KW - San Francisco (Calif.) KW - History N1 - Spine title: The days of the forty-niners; Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site N2 - 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 UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/calbk.200 ER -