Excerpt from The City of Six The author of "The City of Six" passed away in San Francisco, November 20, 1909, a few days before the first proofs of his story reached him. Mr. Canfield was born in Litchfield, Conn., January 7, 1843.While yet a school boy he went to California to join his father, who was one of the early Argonauts, and with him worked claims and mines in Mariposa County. In the early '80's he was engaged in the newspaper business in Nevada. In the summer of 1884 he came to Chicago and secured a position with The Chicago Times," on which journal he performed the duties of railroad editor and art critic. In 1891 he went to San Francisco and was appointed general agent for the Pacific coast for one of the largest railway systems in the West, and this position he held at the time of his death. His boyhood association with the hills and valleys of California, together with his literary instincts, peculiarly fitted him for writing on pioneer and mining life, and a great many short stories have come from his pen, besides the well-known book, The Diary of a Forty-niner." "The City of Six" is his most ambitious story, and one that he had been working on for several years. 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.