Bayard Taylor, California Correspondence, 1849

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A well-established writer, Bayard Taylor traveled to California as a correspondent for the New York Tribune in the summer of 1849. This database is a collection of his dispatches to the newspaper throughout that year. It contains accounts of his journey by ship to the West Coast, visiting mining camps, and his return to New York in 1850. He provides detailed descriptions of the Pacific Coast of Mexico, San Francisco, Stockton, and Monterey. After visiting the gold fields at Sonora and the Mokelumne River, Taylor describes the living conditions in the camps. He also provides his evaluation of the state Constitutional Convention. For those persons wishing to better understand the development of the state during the gold rush, this can be a useful narrative.

Sources Library of Congress. California As I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years. Vol. 122. [database on-line] Washington: Library of Congress, 1999. Taylor, Bayard. Eldorado, Adventures in the Path of Empire. New York: G. P. Putnam, 1850.

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