Twenty Years on the Pacific Slope: Letters of Henry Eno from California and Nevada, 1848-1871

By: Turrentine Jackson and Henry Eno

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Synopsis: The Henry Eno letters from California and Nevada have been described as "one of the most interesting group of letters to have appeared in some years."* Twenty years of travel took Eno to out-of-the-way places on the Pacific Slope about which there is a dearth of information. His story is not merely another account or diary of the gold-rush era; it is even more closely related to the events on the West Coast after this period of high excitement was past. Eno's initial years were spent at Mokelumne Hill, a thriving mining camp, where professional men and politicians who were later to gain great prominence and success in the state of California were among his friends and associates. Here Henry Eno, like many men who came to the West in search of gold, became a small-time entrepreneur, was victimized by forces largely beyond his control, was wiped out financially, and forced to turn to other means of making a living.