Benjamin Avery, California Poetry and Prose, 1878

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In addition to men seeking their fortune in the gold fields, California drew educated professionals seeking a new life on the West Coast. Benjamin Avery was a New York journalist who moved to California in the 1850s and became part owner of the Marysville Appeal. This database is a collection of "word-sketches" Avery wrote that details the scenery and peoples of northern California. These essays and poems describe the Sierra Nevadas, Yosemite, and Mount Shasta among other areas. For those with ancestors from the area, this can be an illuminating look into the geography in which they lived.

Sources Library of Congress. California As I Saw It, 1849-1900. Vol. 22. [database on-line] Washington: Library of Congress, 1999. Avery, Benjamin Parke. Californian Pictures in Prose and Verse. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1878.

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