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Alonzo Delano

Alonzo Delano (July 2, 1806 - September 8, 1874), who went by the pen name "Old Block", was an American humorist, pioneer town city father, and a California Gold Rush Forty-niner. Delano's sketches of gold rush camp life rivaled Bret Harte and Mark Twain in popularity. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Life on the plains and among the diggings by Delano, Alonzo, 1806-1874

    Published: University Microfilms, 1966
    Description: 384 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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    A live woman in the mines or, Pike county ahead! A local play in two acts by Delano, Alonzo, 1806-1874

    Published: S. French, 1857
    Description: 36 pages ; 19 cm.
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    Pen Knife sketches or, Chips of the Old Block. A series of original illustrated letters by Delano, Alonzo, 1806-1874

    Published: Published at the Union office, No. 21 J street, between Front and Second, 1853
    Description: 112 pages : illustrations, plates. ; 22 cm.
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    Pen Knife sketches or, Chips of the Old Block. A series of original illustrated letters
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    Life on the plains and among the diggings being scenes and adventures of an overland journey to California: with particular incidents of the route, mistakes and sufferings of the e... by Delano, Alonzo, 1806-1874

    Published: Milner, Orton & Mulligan, 1854
    Description: xi, 13 unnumbered pages-384 pages : frontispiece, plates. ; 20 cm.
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    Life on the plains and among the diggings being scenes and adventures of an overland journey to California: with particular incidents of the route, mistakes and sufferings of the emigrants, the Indian tribes, the present and the future of the great West
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    Old Block's sketch-book; or, Tales of California life by Delano, Alonzo, 1806-1874

    Published: J. Anthony & Co., 1856
    Description: 1 pages ., iii, 1 unnumbered page, 78 pages, 1 . : plates. ; 23 cm.
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    A Live Woman In the Mines Or, Pike County Ahead! a Local Play In Two Acts. By "Old Block." To Which Are Added a Description Of the Costume-Cast Of the Characters-Entrances and Exit... by Delano, Alonzo, 1806-1874

    Published: Samuel French, 1857
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    A Live Woman In the Mines Or, Pike County Ahead! a Local Play In Two Acts. By "Old Block." To Which Are Added a Description Of the Costume-Cast Of the Characters-Entrances and Exits-Relative Positions Of the Performers On the Stage, and the Whole Of the Stage Business
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    The Miner's progress, or, Scenes in the life of a California miner being a series of humorous illustrations of the "ups and downs" of a gold digger in pursuit of his "pile."

    Published: Daily Union Office, 1853
    Description: 13 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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    The Miner's progress, or, Scenes in the life of a California miner being a series of humorous illustrations of the "ups and downs" of a gold digger in pursuit of his "pile."

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