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Diary of a California gold rush miner originally from Illinois. Dated entries contain brief descriptions of daily events, weather, lists of goods and prices, and other personal observations. The second diary, from 1870, has similar entries and covers a trip App took with his son, John Quincy App, to prospect for silver near a town called Ivenpah that was south of Death Valley near the Nevada border. The diary also contains a couple of added entries made at later dates including 1871 and 1875.

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Title
John App diary, 1870.
Creator
App, John, 1821-1898, creator
Published
1870
Full Collection Name
John App diaries
Project Name
Gold Rush Materials
Other Identifiers
BANC MSS 2012/209, Box 1
Subject (Person)
App, John, 1821-1898
Subject (Topic)
Silver mines and mining
Gold mines and mining
Gold miners
Geographic Coverage
California
Type
Text
Format
Diaries
Language
English
Archive
The Bancroft Library
Note
John App (1821-1898) was born in Pekin, Illinois. In 1850 he emigrated to California to search for gold. The App Mine in Tuolumne County, California, which he discovered, is named after him. He married Leanna Charity Donner in Sacramento City, California on Sept. 26, 1852. Leanna Charity Donner was one of the survivors of the Donner Party tragedy.
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