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N.A. Chandler Gold Rush Era Letters
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    • Death of children, consolation through spiritualism

    • Death of children, consolation through spiritualism

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

    • Chandler writes of his sorrow upon receiving word that his daughter May has died. He writes that he visited a spiritualist in San Francisco in July and was told of the death of a blood relation, but he “did not know that it was our Dear Child...
    • N.A. Chandler Gold Rush Era Letters
    • 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
    • Yankees rated below par

    • Yankees rated below par

    • Gold miners; Gold mines and mining; West (U.S.) History 1860-1890; Pioneers; Correspondence; Eureka (Nev.); Spiritualism; Fortune-telling

    • Chandler has been working as a stonecutter. He corrects Jane’s notion that people in Eureka “are all a rough set of people.” He asserts that “this is a much better place to be poor in than New England.” Chandler discourages consulting...
    • 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

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