The simple facts of his life. if written. would be a history stranger than romance. He was one of the 250.000 young men who left their homes in the East to seek their fortunes in the great gold discoveries of California. Such an opportunity can not again occur. such an emigration can never be repeated. The sons of farmers. mechanics. merchants. bankers. lawyers. and statesmen. from all the States of the Union. rallied in a grand army of goldhunters and rushed to the modern Ophir of California. a land not only rich in gold but of genial skies. balmy and salubrious climate. lofty mountains. fertile valleys. magnificent rivers. all presenting a new world for adventure and enterprise. The restraints of society were removed.
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