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Eldorado Or Adventures In Path Of Empire Eldorado Or Adventures In Path Of Empire Bayard Taylor Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) was already a well-established writer when he traveled to California as special correspondent for the New York Tribune in the summer of 1849. On his return to New York, Tayl… OL1147167W
Reminiscences and Incidents of The Early Days of San Francisco Reminiscences and Incidents of The Early Days of San Francisco John Henry Brown The English-born John Henry Brown (1810-1905) went to sea at an early age and was living among the Cherokees in 1843 when he set out for the Pacific Coast. Reminiscences and incidents of "the early d… OL1287336W
Mountains and molehills Mountains and molehills Frank Marryat Frank Marryat (1826-1855) left England for California via Panama with a manservant and three hunting dogs in 1850, hoping to find material for a book like his earlier Borneo. On his return to England… OL1618059W
Notes of a voyage to California via Cape Horn Notes of a voyage to California via Cape Horn Samuel Curtis Upham Samuel Curtis Upham (1819-1885) was a clerk in a Philadelphia merchant house when he decided to try his luck in California in January, 1849. Sailing round the Horn, he visited Rio de Janeiro and Talc… OL1618068W
Three Years in California Three Years in California John David Borthwick Edinburgh-born artist John David Borthwick (1825-c.1900) left New York for California in 1851, crossing the Isthmus at Chagres. In 1860, Borthwick returned to Britain, where his paintings were exhibi… OL1619847W
McTeague McTeague FrankNorris,Frank Norris,F Norris It was Sunday, and, according to his custom on that day, McTeague took his dinner at two in the afternoon at the car conductors' coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdon… OL1794911W
The Silverado Squatters The Silverado Squatters Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) traveled to California in 1879 in pursuit of Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne, the Oakland woman with whom he had fallen in love in France. The two were married in the s… OL24143W
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada Clarence King Clarence King (1842-1901) of Rhode Island was a Yale-educated geologist and mining engineer who rode horseback across the continent in 1863. In California, he was hired to work on Whitney's geologica… OL2700954W
History of the Donner party History of the Donner party Charles Fayette McGlashan "The delirium preceding death by starvation is full of strange phantasies." OL5282611W
The Jumping Frog and 18 Other Stories The Jumping Frog and 18 Other Stories Mark Twain Jumping frog -- Glorious whitewasher -- On the decay of the art of living -- Punch, brothers, punch -- Death of Jean -- How I was sold in Newark -- On the babies -- About barbers -- On the we… OL54154W
Narrative of the adventures of Zenas Leonard Narrative of the adventures of Zenas Leonard Zenas Leonard Zenas Leonard left his parents’ home in Pennsylvania in the early 1830’s to seek his fortune in the West. They did not hear from him for more than five years, and he was presumed dead. Then one day h… OL6804038W
Report of the debates in the Convention of California, on the formation of the State constitution, … Report of the debates in the Convention of California, on the formation of the State constitution, … J. Ross Browne,California. Constitutional Convention,California Constitutional Convention (1849) John Ross Browne (1817-1875) of Kentucky, the official reporter for the California State Constitutional Convention of September-October 1849, came to California in 1849 as an employee of the governme… OL7138404W