Bayard Taylor, California Correspondence, 1850

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Traveling to California in the summer of 1849 as a correspondent for the New York Tribune, Bayard Taylor was a respected East Coast writer. This database is a collection of dispatches to the newspaper in 1850, as Taylor returned from California. It contains accounts of his visits to mining camps and his return trip to New York. He provides detailed descriptions of the Pacific Coast of Mexico, San Francisco, Stockton, and Monterey. Additionally, he includes some commentary regarding 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. 123. [database on-line] Washington: Library of Congress, 1999. Taylor, Bayard. Eldorado, Adventures in the Path of Empire, Vol. 2. New York: G. P. Putnam, 1850.

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