California Letters of the Gold Rush Period.

The article presents information on the California Gold Rush through an examination of the correspondences surrounding the activities of gold prospector John Ingalls. The letters examined date from 1849 to 1851 and are written by Ingalls' friend John Trumbull Smith and Ingalls' wife Anne Smith. The letters present information on Ingalls' trip to California by way of sailing around South America, they provide information about his landfall, his purchasing of supplies and stories he has heard from other miners.