. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. elate General James W. Denver for a seat in the StateSenate, and the canvass so engrossed his attention thathe wholh neglected his military engagements. The re-sult was, that, after remaining in camp several weeks,with no prospect of being enrolled, we disbanded, butnot without visiting a profusion of epithets more vigor-ous than polite upon the head of the aforesaid remained at Uniontown ( now Areata) that point was then a commercial center of considera-ble importance, being a seaport, and
. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. elate General James W. Denver for a seat in the StateSenate, and the canvass so engrossed his attention thathe wholh neglected his military engagements. The re-sult was, that, after remaining in camp several weeks,with no prospect of being enrolled, we disbanded, butnot without visiting a profusion of epithets more vigor-ous than polite upon the head of the aforesaid remained at Uniontown ( now Areata) that point was then a commercial center of considera-ble importance, being a seaport, and as such the seatof a quite heavy traffic with the outl3ing mines. Thesawmill had not yet been introduced in that section,and the frow and the whipsaw did duty as a substitute,the frow doing the major share of the work. Thetown la\ immediately at the edge of the great red-wood forests, and the timber \ielded so readily to thefrow that the building material was chiefly manufac-tured in this way. I was occupied during most of thewinter getting out siding, for which I received ten. HISTORY OF HUMBOLDT COUNTY 4^^^<:^^X.^ A-t^ [Kinnian was a noted pioneer and hunter of Humboldt Bay. He was a na-tive Pennsylvanian, and when (Buch)anan was elected President he conceivedthe idea of tnaking for that public functionary a (buck)horn chair WhenKinman, as he here appears, arrived at Washington with his novelty, he wasso greatly lionized that he followed up the experiment upon the incoming ofevery succeeding President down to Oarfield, whose early assassination pre-vented the delivery of the gift. He took much pride in showing the many flat-tering notices he had received from the press. In 1884., when I last saw him, hewas keeping at the stage station on Table Bluffa sort of frontier curiosity snop,where he served a limited assortment of? tangle-leg to the thirsty wayfar-ing callers. Among his curiosities, was a fiddle he had constructed in part fromthe forehead of his favorite mule, whos
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