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THE GOLD RUSH LETTERS OF E. ALLEN GROSH & HOSEA B. GROSH. Edited by Ronald James and Robert Stewart. 244 pages, illustrated, index. Color cover. During 1849-1856 these brothers wrote letters which tell of mining developments on California’s Mother Lode and also Gold Canyon near Dayton. Included are lively insights of frontier life, the composition of ore in their claims, and the settlement of Carson Valley. Stewart’s valuable endnotes offer additional documentation of events people and places associated with the brothers. Here is a valuable history depicting the years before the great silver discovery at Virginia City in 1859. Cloth with dust jacket. $24.95.