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Collection: Directories and Documents > Tanis Thorne Native Californian & Nisenan Collection

The Lucky Frenchman of the Yuba (3 pages)

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PAGE 30 THECALIFORNIANS VOLUMEI1/NO.6 The Lucky Frenchmen of the Yuba __ Fate dealt each of these three French pioneers a different hand: one died penniless, another's late-in-life losses were as unpredictable as his initial By Claudine Chalmers Ithough the French are usually said to prefer their slippers to traveling boots, a great number of them poured into California at the time of the luck, and the third lived a happy and prospero us but short life. a gold rush: political chaos at home encouraged even the most sedentary to respond to the call of gold. Indeed, so many French argonauts poured into California between 1849 and 1854 that their very numbers sometimes obscure the fact that many citizens of France also settled in California before 1848 when the territory was still in its infancy. Among these pioneers were three Frenchmen in particular, whose lives on America’s western frontier were irreversibly changed by California’s golden