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The Call of Gold

True Tales
On the Gold Road to Yosemite

BY
NEWELL D. CHAMBERLAIN

ILLUSTRATED

Copyright, 1936, by
NEWELL D. CHAMBERLAIN
All rights reserved.
First Edition published
November, 1936

Printed in the United States of America
GAZETTE PRESS
Mariposa, Calif., U.S.A.

“History is chiefly what the great men in the world have done.”—Carlyle.

“The life of the old Californian is an epic, noble as any handed down out of the dusty old. He saw more, suffered more, practiced more self-denial, than can fall to the lot of any man.”—Joaquin Miller.

“The gods, in bounty, work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their strength.”—Addison.

[click to enlarge] Colonel John C. Fremont, on stage, Bear Valley, 1858. [Editor’s note: Oso House hotel in 1860, by Charleton E. Watkins; Fremont was supposely not in the area in 1960—dea]

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