BERKELEY, CALIF. — PBA Galleries conducted its 847th auction on September 25, offering 372 lots of rare and fine books connected to “Western Americana, with Gold Rushers, God-Fearers, Gunslingers and Anglers.” The winning price of the day was $5,000, including buyer’s premium, which was awarded to a circa 1898-1904 archive of materials relating to Klondike mining, comprising approximately 90 items. The prominent feature of this lot was two manuscript diaries referring to P. V. Thorniley, M. O. Kristianson and Thomas Delhi, “three men embarking into the Klondike” to mine. Other pieces of the lot included a handwritten record of gold panning with diary entries, envelopes, a mining claim, receipts, invoices, maps and unmounted and mounted photographs (shown). Stored in a custom clamshell box, the lot eclipsed the low end of its $500/800 estimate 10 times. Additional highlights from this sale will be featured in an upcoming issue.