Excerpt from The Autobiography of Charles Peters: In 1915 the Oldest Pioneer Living in California Who Mined in "the Days of Old, the Days of Gold, the Days of '49;"; Also Historical Happenings, Interesting Incidents and Illustrations of the Old Mining Towns in the Good Luck Era, the Placer Mining Days Of Like an animal encumbered with too long a tail, I found my full name to be unwieldy, so I amputated it at the second joint soon after leaving home. I have called myself and have been known for nearly eighty years as Charles Peters. I was born on January 12, 1825, on the Island of Fiol, which is off the western coast of Portugal and belongs to the Government of Portugal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.