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The California Gold Rush In Their Own Words and Images |
| Excerpts of a letter by Martin Rodney to T.J. Rodney |
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August 9, 1852 … T’is true a California life is not one of pleasure, but to the contrary one of fatigue, toil and privation. Which I presume ere this time you are aware of, … I have never regretted the moment I left Missouri and were I there again I would not remain there long. But I would launch my bark for the Land of Glittering Dreams. … Courtesy Searls Memorial Library |
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