Alexandre Dumas, Trip to California

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Pursuing gold, immigrants came from around the world to settle on the West Coast of the United States. This database, promoted as non-fiction, is the transcription of a work by one of the most acclaimed French novelists of the nineteenth century, Alexandre Dumas. It recounts the travels of a young Frenchman to California during the Gold Rush. He includes descriptions of sailing from Le Havre around the Horn, fires in San Francisco, farming in the territory and hunting trips near Sonoma and the Mariposa Valley. Regardless of the verity of the account, researchers will find helpful descriptions of life in California during the Gold Rush.

Sources Library of Congress. California As I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years. Vol. 74. [database on-line] Washington: Library of Congress, 1999. Dumas, Alexandre. A Gil Blas in California. Los Angeles: Primavera Press, 1933.

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