GOLD RUSH RELATED POSTCARDS
The California Gold Rush is perhaps my obsession. I collect anything I can afford that relates
even slightly to the Mother Lode and the mining camps of the Gold Rush. In fact, my collecting
and quest for information regarding the Gold Country, its towns and their inhabitants, led me to
write a book about the California Gold Rush, which I've just recently published. It is entitled
The California Gold Rush: Highway 49 Revisited, and is available for sale. A good portion of the
book is also available online, click here to check it out.
Take a look at some of the postcards I've collected over the years.
- AMADOR CITY - In the heart of the Mother Lode on Highway 49 (105K)
- AUBURN - Old town overview (84K)
- AUBURN - The Auburn-Foresthill Bridge over the American River (56K)
- BIG TREES - The original Big Tree, 32 feet diameter, Calaveras Co., Cal. (144K)
- BRIDGEPORT - The old Bridgeport Covered Bridge over the South Fork of
the Yuba River (75K)
- BUTTE CITY - The old Butte Store, located on Highway 49 between Jackson
and Mokelumne Hill (70K)
- CAMPO SECO - Greetings from Campo Seco (58K)
- COLOMA - Monument to James W. Marshall, discoverer of Gold in
California (55K)
- COLUMBIA - Street scene of the "Gem of the Southern Mines" (71K)
- DOUGLAS FLAT - The Gilleado Building (64K)
- DOWNIEVILLE - The St. Charles Hotel, burned July 28, 1947 at 12:30 A.M. (80K)
- EL DORADO - "Mud Springs" via Hwy 49 (54K)
- DUTCH FLAT - Hydraulic Mining at Dutch Flat (63K)
- GEORGETOWN - The Widow Balzar House (71K)
- GRASS VALLEY - Downtown Mill Street (61K)
- HORNITOS - The only Masonic Lodge in California privileged to meet on
the ground floor (53K)
- JACKASS HILL - The Mark Twain Cabin (71K)
- JACKSON - The famous Kennedy Tailing Wheels (72K)
- JAMESTOWN - Butterfield Merchandise Store (34K)
- KNIGHT'S FERRY - Covered Bridge built in 1864 (39K)
- MICHIGAN BLUFF - Leland Stanford's Store (39K)
- MURPHYS - "Queen of the Sierra" (78K)
- NEVADA CITY - The National Hotel, an early view of California's oldest
continuously operated hotel (71K)
- NORTH SAN JUAN - An early day center of operations for the hydraulic
mining industry (118K)
- PLACERVILLE - A Bird's Eye View of Placerville, El Dorado County (110K)
- PLYMOUTH - Frontier gold town located on Highway 49 (95K)
- ROUGH & READY - The only town to secede from the United States (42K)
- SIERRA CITY - Main Street (37K)
- SONORA - An early view of one of the wickedest towns of the Southern Mines (44K)
- SUTTER'S FORT - The first outpost of white civilization in California (73K)
- VALLECITO - Vallecitos Stage Station (43K)
- VOLCANO - Yes, there really is a Volcano, California (74K)
- YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK (91K)
Miscellaneous Cards
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