Sacramento
California
Dear Aunt Arabella,
We have just arrived in Sacramento and have done a lot since we have been here.
We have met a man named Pitch Pine Billy who has been very nice and has taught us dry washing [that's looking for gold without water]. He also showed us how to lay a claim to dig gold, live in a tent, drink coffee and eat sow belly and beans.
The trip on the boat took 4 months and the boat almost sunk but I still liked the trip especially sailing through the Straits of Magellan.
We were robbed by Road Agents while on the stagecoach who took our coats and a secret map that one of our friends had given us but we tracked them down and got it back.
While I was panning for gold I found a nugget in the weeds and it was pretty big! In town at Cheap John's auction they had a whole bushel of neckties and while I was talking to Jimmy From Town I told him I had already ate but Cheap John thought I said eight and sold me the neck ties. About 2 weeks later John's wife came to town. There hadn't been a lady in town for such a long time that everyone had a bath and they all wanted to buy a neck tie and paid us 2 pinches of gold each. We got paid lots that day.
We miss you very much and would love to see you but Hangtown is not a place for ladies.
Love from
Jack and Praiseworthy
California
Dear Aunt Arabella,
We have just arrived in Sacramento and have done a lot since we have been here.
We have met a man named Pitch Pine Billy who has been very nice and has taught us dry washing [that's looking for gold without water]. He also showed us how to lay a claim to dig gold, live in a tent, drink coffee and eat sow belly and beans.
The trip on the boat took 4 months and the boat almost sunk but I still liked the trip especially sailing through the Straits of Magellan.
We were robbed by Road Agents while on the stagecoach who took our coats and a secret map that one of our friends had given us but we tracked them down and got it back.
While I was panning for gold I found a nugget in the weeds and it was pretty big! In town at Cheap John's auction they had a whole bushel of neckties and while I was talking to Jimmy From Town I told him I had already ate but Cheap John thought I said eight and sold me the neck ties. About 2 weeks later John's wife came to town. There hadn't been a lady in town for such a long time that everyone had a bath and they all wanted to buy a neck tie and paid us 2 pinches of gold each. We got paid lots that day.
We miss you very much and would love to see you but Hangtown is not a place for ladies.
Love from
Jack and Praiseworthy
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