title: Forty-Niner: The Extraordinary Gold Rush Odyssey of Joseph Goldsborough Bruff (American Grit)
author: Ken Lizzio
description: True West Magazine:<br /><br />&quot;A<span>uthor Ken Lizzio&apos;s <i>Forty-Niner: The Extraordinary Gold Rush Odyssey of Joseph Goldsborough Bruff</i> (The Countryman Press, $24.95) is a sparkling and fast-paced narrative of Bruff&apos;s adventures way out West. </span><br /><span></span><br /><span>This new book should be on the shelf ofall readers interested in the Gold Rush, for Bruff was one of its mostperceptive participants and observers. </span><span>Bruff was an ex-West Pointer, a conscientious diarist, cartographer, cartoonist and sketch artist.</span><br /><br /><span>The captain of a company of &quot;GoldRushers&quot; from Washington D.C., Bruff sketched his overland trek and thegoldfields once he got there, creating priceless moments, frozen intime, from a period for which photographs are either</span><span>rare or nonexistent. </span><span>He drew his fellow miners, Indians, bear confrontations, even a San Francisco lynching.&quot;</span><br /><span></span><br /><i>--<b>Brian Dervin Dillon, Ph.D</b>.</i> is an archaeologist with more than 25 years of historic and prehistoric research throughout California&apos;s Gold Country.
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  # The Gold-Stealers
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Edward Dyson
  
  
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  CHAPTER II.
  
  
  CHAPTER III.
  
  
  CHAPTER IV
  
  
  CHAPTER V.
  
  
  CHAPTER VI.
  
  
  CHAPTER VII.
  
  
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  CHAPTER IX.
  
  
  CHAPTER X.
  
  
  CHAPTER XI.
  
  
  CHAPTER XII.
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII.
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV.
  
  
  CHAPTER XV.
  
  
  CHAPTER XVI.
  
  
  CHAPTER XVII.
  
  
  CHAPTER XVIII.
  
  
  CHAPTER XIX.
  
  
  CHAPTER XX.
  
  
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  CHAPTER XXIV
  
  
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      The Gold-Stealers
  
  
  A Story of Waddy
  
  
  
  
      
  
  Produced by Peter O'Connell
  
  
  
  
  
  THE GOLD STEALERS
  
  
  By Edward Dyson
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  THE schoolhouse at Waddy was not in the least like any of the trim
  
  
  State buildings that now decorate every Victorian township and mark
  
  
  every mining or agricultural centre that can scrape together two or
  
  
  three meagre classes; it was the result of a purely local enthusiasm,
  
  
  and was