To Nancy Kent Thoben and interested Woolsey researchers: One never knows what one will turn up when digging around. I found this interesting story on James Woolsey and thought it may be the brother of my ancestor, Sarah Woolsey. I have since decided that this is James Bradshaw Woolsey and I have a great picture of him. !HIST: The Smithsonian Magazine. January 1998. (ON-LINE: www.smithsonianmag.si.edu) "The Lure of Gold" Collection of Matthew R. Isenburg, et al. "The nugget he had pulled from the mine near Sierraville, (Sierra County), California, weighed a whopping eight pounds, so JAMES WOOLSEY did what came naturally during the gold rush: he had his "likeness" taken to commemorate the event. For three or four dollars, a forty-niner could walk into a daguerreotype studio - located in the tent city that had sprung up in San Francisco, or in one of the portable wagon-studios that plied the mining camps - and have a cased image made to send to loved ones back home. Business was especially brisk when a steam was about to leave for the East. In his advertising broadside, photographer William Shew advised: " ... it is for your advantage to call soon after the steamer leaves, and you will have a much better chance to get good pictures." The picture isn't with the above but is in the Time-Life Series "The West" and its special 49'ers. Sincerely, Wilford W. Whitaker