by Robert L. Santos
California State University, Stanislaus
Librarian
University Archivist
blsantos@csustan.edu
Alley-Cass Publications
Turlock, California
Copyright 1998; Revised Edition 2002
"I was in New London, Conn., in 1848, when the news came of the discovery of gold in California, and I
soon got the gold fever. I sailed in the ship ‘Elfa’ from New York with several hundred other ‘49ers."
___ The Autobiography of Charles Peters
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