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    • Changing luck

    • Changing luck

    • Gold miners; Gold mines and mining; West (U.S.) History 1860-1890; Pioneers; Correspondence; Virginia City (Nev.); Spiritualism; Fortune-telling; San Francisco (Calif.)

    • Chandler writes on his interest in mining claims around Virginia City and Alpha. He writes that “fortune has seemed to frown on all my undertakings until the last few months” but now “I can realize more money from my last years work than I...
    • N.A. Chandler Gold Rush Era Letters
    • Great expectations, Pony Express

    • Great expectations, Pony Express

    • Gold miners; Gold mines and mining; West (U.S.) History 1860-1890; Pioneers; Correspondence; Virginia City (Nev.); Pony express

    • Chandler writes on the rush to Virginia City, and the high sales prices of some claims. He writes that his “most extravagant expectations are very likely to be realized in a short time, but from 20 to 100 thousand is not considered much of a...
    • N.A. Chandler Gold Rush Era Letters
    • Hard times "my luck runs wild"

    • Hard times "my luck runs wild"

    • Gold miners; Gold mines and mining; West (U.S.) History 1860-1890; Pioneers; Correspondence; Virginia City (Nev.); Spiritualism; Fortune-telling; Civil War America

    • Chandler writes about his financial losses, and a visit that he made to a fortune teller. He writes what an “Old Fortune Teller” told him regarding his past and future. He recounts the excitement of the city on Lee’s surrender to Grant, but...
    • N.A. Chandler Gold Rush Era Letters
    • Easy money in mining stocks

    • Easy money in mining stocks

    • Gold miners; Gold mines and mining; West (U.S.) History 1860-1890; Pioneers; Correspondence; Virginia City (Nev.); Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Civil War America

    • Chandler writes that he has “cleared six thousand dollars on the rise of stocks within the last month, mostly in the Lady Bryan.” He doesn’t “feel like going to Mass or any other Black Republican state while the war is going on.” He...
    • N.A. Chandler Gold Rush Era Letters

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