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Excerpt from Gold and Sunshine: Reminiscences of Early California For some time past I have had in contemplation to write a book, taking as the subject my exper

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James J. Ayers left St. Louis, Missouri for California in 1849. He remained to carve out a career for himself in journalism. Gold and sunshine (1922) was comple