Sights in the gold region, and scenes by the way
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- 1849
- Description
Theodore Taylor Johnson of New Jersey sailed to California in February 1849 and had returned home by the end of June. Sights in the gold region (1849) is the first published book to relate authentic personal experiences in the California gold fields. Johnson describes his voyage to California and Panama crossing and prospecting in the Culomma Valley. He also writes of his return to San Francisco in the hope of finding work at the end of spring and his discouraged decision to take passage home, again crossing the Isthmus again at Chagres. Personal recollections are fleshed out with second hand discussions of the state's history and culture.
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- Creator
Johnson, Theodore T. (Theodore Taylor), b. 1818
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- HathiTrust
- Contributing Institution
- Library of Congress
- Publisher
- New York, Baker and Scribner
- Subjects
- Voyages to the Pacific coast
Panama--Description and travel
California--Description and travel
California--Gold discoveries - Location
- Panama
California - Type
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- Language materialElectronic resource
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Public domain. Learn more at http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use
- Chicago citation style
- Johnson, Theodore T. (Theodore Taylor), b. 1818. Sights in the gold region, and scenes by the way. 1849. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009575579. (Accessed April 18, 2024.)
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- Johnson, Theodore T. (Theodore Taylor), b. 1818, (1849) Sights in the gold region, and scenes by the way. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009575579
- MLA citation style
- Johnson, Theodore T. (Theodore Taylor), b. 1818. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009575579>.