Need help researching "Samuel Brannan" past gold rush.

Not sure if a "Research" part of the forum exists, so I thought to post this here:

Im in the middle of trying to compile a more detailed history of the life of Samuel Brannan and am looking for some help.

Currently, virtually everyone online resource I have found with information about him, has his life detailed down to the exact same series of events. He starts the gold rush in 1849 shouting "Gold in the American River!" he becomes filthy rich by 1851. Bought a raid road in 1859 that he lost money on. Got divorced in 1872 and lost his finical empier because of it. Died 1889.

I have scoured google and other places, and often any mention of him is just of his gold rush years. I have yet to find any detailed information of his business from 1850 to 1859, and likewise there seems to be nothing detailed up to his divorce in 1872. Tomorrow I plan to go down to the local Library to do more 'old school' research, but I fear I may find the same thing, nothing but information of his gold rush years, glossing to his divorce then death.

If anyone knows additional information, books they can suggest or other places I can look, I would deeply appreciate it
 
No one else knows of any additional historical sources for research?

Well, the wiki article you cited gives a list of references (books and articles in historical journals). Have you checked those out? Several of those look like they'd probably have the information you need. If your local library doesn't have them, you can get them through interlibrary loan.

Unfortunately, sometimes you have to do research in actual BOOKS to find what you need. The internet is still a very incomplete research resource on many subjects.
 
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