David A. Shaw, California As Seen by a Pioneer

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Before the completion of the transcontinental railroad, two avenues lay open to the traveler to California, by wagon or by ship. This first person historical narrative was written by one of these overland pioneers. On his way to the coast, he offers anecdotes of Salt Lake City, the Mormons, trappers, mountain men, Placerville and the criminal justice system. The author offers his observations with an objective and factual tone, although his stated purpose was to write "with the hope of pleasing as well as instructing." This narrative is intended to give readers a sense of the world encountered by the pioneers who traveled overland from the east to California.

Sources Library of Congress. California As I Saw It, 1849-1900. Vol. 12. [database on-line] Washington: Library of Congress, 1999. Shaw, David Augustus. Eldorado: or, California as Seen By a Pioneer. Los Angeles: B. R. Baumgardt and Co., 1900.

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