Hi Trish,
Below are two secondary sources, both of them Caughey, that describes
Brannan's declaration on the streets of San Francisco.
Tom
Caughey, John Walton
1948 Gold is the Cornerstone. University of California Press, Berkeley.
Pages: 19-20
Caughey, John Walton
1955 California. Prentice-Hall, Inc. New York.
Page: 241