Israel Brockman
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"One of the first Sonomans to go prospecting [due to the Gold Rush] was Nicholas Carriger, who together with his brother-in-law Joseph Wardlow and friends Elias Graham and Henry Thornton, set out in the Spring of 1848" ("Pioneer Sonoma" Robert Parmalee) | "One of the first Sonomans to go prospecting [due to the Gold Rush] was Nicholas Carriger, who together with his brother-in-law Joseph Wardlow and friends Elias Graham and Henry Thornton, set out in the Spring of 1848" ("Pioneer Sonoma" Robert Parmalee) | ||
− | "[Again in 1849] Nick Carriger...[went] to the gold | + | "[Again in 1849] Nick Carriger...[went] to the gold mines at Auburn, where he made enough money to permit him to return and purchase from Vallejo a large ranch on the west side of Sonoma Valley, adjacent to the road which today bears his name." (Robert Parmalee, "Pioneer Sonoma") |
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From an anoymous article in the Alta California 4 Oct 1859 (as reported by Robert Parmalee "Pioneer Sonoma") "[Of the pioneers who came to Sonoma in 1846] Nick Carriger is almost the only thriving man [still] in the valley who crossed the continent in 1846." | From an anoymous article in the Alta California 4 Oct 1859 (as reported by Robert Parmalee "Pioneer Sonoma") "[Of the pioneers who came to Sonoma in 1846] Nick Carriger is almost the only thriving man [still] in the valley who crossed the continent in 1846." | ||
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