A Peep at Washoe and Washoe Revisited - Paperback

by J. Ross Browne (Author)

A Peep at Washoe was riginally Serialized in 1860/61. Browne travels on foot to Silver Crazed Nevada during the height of prospecting and speculation. In Washoe Revisited, serialized in 1865, he returns to see the changes that have taken place as civilization takes hold in the mining regions.

Author Biography

John Ross Browne was born in Dublin on February 21, 1821 In 1833 the family emigrated to the United States., as a condition of his fathers release from prison, where he was serving time for his politcal activities. Browne briefly attended medical school, worked on a riverboat and signed on to a whaling ship out of New Bedford.. In 1846 he published the book Etchings of a Whaling Cruise at Harper & Brothers, New York. He married Lucy Anne Mitchell in 1844. The couple had nine children. Brown settled in California in 1849, in time for the California Gold Rush, where he worked at various Government Jobs. He traveled extensively while writing serializations for Harper's Magazine. He was appointed Minister to China in 1868. John Ross Browne died on 9 Dec 1875 in Oakland, California.