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Collection: Directories and Documents > Pamphlets

Half an Hour in El Dorado (PH 1-12)(1940s-50s) (35 pages)

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the lens of a pioneer photographer has caught Marshall himself, standing beside Sutter's Mill. It was on this very spot that he picked up the first gold. Unfortunately, he failed to note the exact date of his find, and that little Oversight of his caused such a heated controversy among Californian historians in later years that the legislature finally had to pass a special act, fixing the date of the discovery as January 24, 1848. = — NO. Oo Here is the earliest California gold mining implement (No. 9). Not a gold pan, but a Bowie knife, such as was used by Marshall's first followers, to dig the precious, gleaming flakes from crevices in rocks along the river bank. NO. 10 This weather-beaten outfit (No. 10) was once the property of Marshall. It represents the next development in gold recovery . . . the pick, shovel, and pan, that brought riches to many, though never to the unlucky Marshall. r a2 C NO. 11 NO. 12