A Pennsylvania Mennonite and the California Gold Rush - REVISED EDITION - now on sale

Lawrence Knorr's "A Pennsylvania Mennonite and the California Gold Rush: The Journal and Letters of David Baer Hackman" has been released by Sunbury Press in a revised edition. The book is now for sale on Amazon.com

Camp Hill, PA - Sunbury Press, Inc. has released the new revised edition of "A Pennsylvania Mennonite and the California Gold Rush: The Journal and Letters of David Baer Hackman.

The book can be purchased in the USA at:
http://www.amazon.com/Pennsylvania-Mennonite-California- ...

About the Book:
David Baer Hackman (1827-1896) a Mennonite from Millport, Lancaster County, PA, traveled west to California in 1850, seeking his fortune during the great Gold Rush. David wrote many letters home concerning his crossing of the plains by wagon and his many detailed experiences in and around the gold fields of California. A vivid writer for such a young man, David captures images of the mining communities, the boom towns of Sacramento, Hangtown, Mokelumne Hill, Columbia and Sonora and the lawlessness found there. He writes of early San Francisco, the local Indians, trouble with bears, and the great trees of Calaveras County. His journal then captures his return trip in 1854 by steam ship to Panama, across the Isthmus and then to New York City. Lawrence Knorr presents the journal and letters in sequence along with their historical context, providing corroborating accounts where available. In all, an excellent primary source and piece of social history from one of the most exciting times in American history. This volume is 194 pages.

Excerpt:
In the midst of the matchless energy and enterprise by which I have been surrounded during my sojourn of four years in California, I have sometimes imagined that the scenes in which I was moving were not enacted in the world in which I was born and reared, but that by some unfathomable transmigration I had become the subject of a new existence. Here virtue shines out to dimly in contrast with the dark deformity of over-shadowing, stalwart vice, faces, complexions, customs, habits, and business intercourse, manners, trade, laws, skies, air, earth, and all things so strange, so peculiar and unlike my old associations, that the doctrine of the ancient philosopher seemed at times plausible.

Publication Date:
Jun 30 2010
ISBN/EAN13:
1453628509 / 9781453628508
Page Count: 194
Binding Type: US Trade Paper
Trim Size: 5.5" x 8.5"
Language: English
Color: Black and White
Related Categories: History / United States / Civil War Period

About the Author:

Lawrence Knorr, born 1964, is an amateur genealogist with deep roots in the Pennsylvania Dutch Region. Lawrence's "real" jobs are as Director of Information Systems for Giant Food Stores, LLC of Carlisle, PA and as an adjunct professor at Harrisburg University, Harrisburg, PA. Lawrence holds a Bachelor's degree in Business/Economics (History Minor) from Wilson College and a Masters of Business Administration from Penn State. He is also a Certified Computer Professional and Project Management Professional. Lawrence lives with his wife Tammi and has two daughters.

Lawrence has been involved in genealogical research for fifteen years, and is or has been a member of several related organizations:

National Genealogical Society
Pennsylvania German Society
Berks County Genealogical Society
Pennsylvania Heritage Society
Palatines to America - Pennsylvania Chapter
Sons of the American Revolution
Mahanoy and Mahantango Historical and Preservation Society
Derry Township Historical Society
Manheim Historical Society
Adams County Historical Society

Other books by Lawrence Knorr:
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