Sketches of Travels in South America, Mexico And California

Book digitized by Google from the library of New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. A native of Frederick, Maryland, Luther Melanchthon Schaeffer sailed around the Horn to California in 1849. He spent most of the next two-and-a-half years in the gold fields, mining on the Feather River, Deer Creek, Grass Valley (Centerville) and other Nevada County sites. Sketches of travels in South America, Mexico and California (1860) gives an excellent picture of the intern