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Collection: Books and Periodicals > Nevada County Historical Society Bulletins

Volume 049-2 - April 1995 (8 pages)

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Nevada County Historical Society ~ Bulletin Volume 49, No. 2 April 1995 The Steamer Golden Gate—Lost at Sea as reported in the Nevada Democrat newspaper Escape from the Sea: the Thrilling Narrative of André Chavanne of Grass Valley translated from the French, as it appeared in the Nevada Morning Transcript of August 13, 1862 Simmon Pefia Storms, the former Indian Agent who was André Chavanne, another Golden Gate pasamong the passengers on the Golden Gate when that senger, was a well known and wealthy mine owner steamer caught fire and sank near Manzanillo, Mexico. at Grass Valley. His personal account vividly deBefore going to a Mendocino County reservation with scribes the frightening experience of floating for 22 hundreds of Nevada County Indians, Storms had a ranch hours in the Pacific Ocean, never knowing what his and trading post near present-day Chicago Park, chances of survival might be.