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Daniel Jenks chronicled America’s Gold Rush history in a 5-volume western diary. It’s one of the most vivid and best written first-hand accounts of the 1849 California Gold Rush and 1859 Colorado Gold Rush that have survived. When he first arrived at the San Francisco Gold Rush in 1849, Jenks was a lanky 21-year-old Greenhorn. Years later however, Daniel would make a name for himself in Yreka California.
Jenks spent years panning for gold at historic California gold mining camps and wrote about Big Oak Flat, Chilean Camp, Chinese Camp, Garrote, Pioneer City aka Hog ‘em, Humbug Creek, Jacksonville, Long Gulch, Yreka, Marysville, Placerville, Savage’s Camp and Wood’s Camp. He also traveled America’s historic emigrant trails; The California Trail, Santa Fe Trail, Cherokee Trail, Hastings Cutoff, Salt Lake Cutoff, Applegate Trail, Lassen Trail, Nobles Trail, The Oregon Trail and Yreka Trail.
In 1852 Daniel Jenks moved to Yreka California, where he mined for gold on Long Gulch, worked as a Steward, tried his hand at being a Drover, survived the Indian Wars and wrote extensively about it all. In 1857 Jenks sold his Long Gulch gold mining claim and returned home to Pawtucket Rhode Island, until 1859 when the Colorado Gold Rush drew him westward again. After concluding the Pikes Peak Gold Rush was all a humbug, Jenks returned to Yreka.
He was Yreka’s Assessor between 1862-1864, then elected Constable of Yreka Township in 1866. One year later Daniel died, and the amazing gold rush stories he wrote about his struggle to survive in the American Wild West were almost lost to time. Ride along with Daniel Jenks as he details his experiences during this extraordinary chapter in American history. It’s a new twist on Wild West storytelling and the tale’s delivered to us in the Argonaut’s own words, rich in the color and singular culture of those gold rush boomtowns.
Go West! With Daniel Jenks.
