Abstract
THE FIRST detailed intelligence of the workings of the gold mines in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada was imparted to Europe by a literary hoax. The news of the gold discovery and the start of the gold rush reached London toward the end of 1848, and Henry Vizetelly, an enterprising young author, saw the opportunity of cashing in on the general excitement which the reports created all over the world. In January, 1849, David Bogue in London published Four Months among the Goldfinders in A lta California, being the Diary of an Expedition from San Francisco to the Gold Districts, by J. Tyrwitt Brooks, M.D. The little book was well and convincingly written; as to details, there was hardly anyone in the whole world who could have checked on them and established
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