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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. (From Wikipedia) More about Alonzo Delano:
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Filed under: Delano, Alonzo, 1806-1874 -- Correspondence![[Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif) Alonzo Delano's California Correspondence: Being Letters Hitherto Uncollected From the Ottawa (Illinois) Free Trader and the New Orleans True Delta, 1849-1852 (Sacramento: Sacramento Book Collectors Club, 1952), by Alonzo Delano, ed. by Irving McKee, illust. by Stewart Mitchell and Harry O. Diamond
Books by Alonzo Delano: - Delano, Alonzo, 1806-1874: Alonzo Delano's California Correspondence: Being Letters Hitherto Uncollected From the Ottawa (Illinois) Free Trader and the New Orleans True Delta, 1849-1852 (Sacramento: Sacramento Book Collectors Club, 1952), ed. by Irving McKee, illust. by Stewart Mitchell and Harry O. Diamond
- Delano, Alonzo, 1806-1874: Alonzo Delano's Pen-Knife Sketches: or, Chips of the Old Block (San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1934), contrib. by G. Ezra Dane, illust. by Charles Christian Nahl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Delano, Alonzo, 1806-1874: Life on the Plains and Among the Diggings (New York: Miller, Orton and Co., 1857)
Additional books by Alonzo Delano in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) Delano, Alonzo, 1806-1874: Alonzo Delano's Pen-knife sketches : or, Chips of the old block a series of original illustrated letters (Grabhorn Press, 1934), also by G. Ezra Dane and Grabhorn Press (page images at HathiTrust)- Delano, Alonzo, 1806-1874: The idle and industrious miner. (James Anthony & Co., 1854), also by William Bausman, Charles Christian Nahl, and James Anthony & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
- Delano, Alonzo, 1806-1874: Life on the plains and among the diggings. (University Microfilms, 1966) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Delano, Alonzo, 1806-1874: 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 (Milner, Orton & Mulligan, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Delano, Alonzo, 1806-1874: 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. (Milner, Orton and co., 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Delano, Alonzo, 1806-1874: 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 future of the great West. (C.M. Saxton, 1859) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Delano, Alonzo, 1806-1874: 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 future of the great West. (Miller, Orton & co., 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Delano, Alonzo, 1806-1874: 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 future of the great West (C.M. Saxton, Barker & Co., 1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Delano, Alonzo, 1806-1874: A live woman in the mines; or, Pike county ahead! A local play in two acts. (S. French, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Delano, Alonzo, 1806-1874: A sojourn with royalty : and other sketches by "Old Block" (Alonzo Delano) (George Fields, 1936), also by G. Ezra Dane and Grabhorn Press (page images at HathiTrust)
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