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Life by Land and Sea (Early California Writers Series)
Life by Land and Sea - Early California Writers Series Author:Prentice Mulford Prentice Mulford lived by his wits--like his friends Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce and Bret Harte--in rowdy young San Francisco after the Gold Rush. But unlike the other writers, Mulford had no romantic illusions of pioneer life: He had spent seven years as a whaling ship cook, prospector, schoolmaster and frontier politician. This memoir, out of p... more »rint for decades, revives the lyrical and sardonic voice of an original observer of those years.« less