"Returning from Kern River", illustration from "A Peep at Washoe" by J.
1860
"Returning from Kern River", illustration from "A Peep at Washoe" by J. Ross Browne, in Harper's Monthly Magazine, December 1860. This would be the Kern River, California gold rush of 1853.
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