Notes by the camp fire : being a narrative of an overland journey from the United States to California in the year, 1849

Holograph account of the Havilah Mining Association's overland journey from Fort Smith, Ark. to the gold regions of California. The association was composed of 34 men, of whom George F. Sniffen wrote the journal. The journal begins in March 1849 with the company making preparations for its journey and concludes in early January 1850 with Sniffen and a friend gaining passage on a ship in San Francisco to return to the eastern United States

• Sniffen, George F

1 v. (68 leaves)

Provenance: John B. Goodman, III

• California

• 1849

• Archives

• Gold mines and mining
• Overland journeys to the Pacific

• text

Acquired 1991

Cite as: George F. Sniffen. Journal. John B. Goodman Collection. Special Collections and Archives, UC San Diego Library

Public domain (US)

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2020-10-27