California Narratives: Recollections of a Long and Somewhat Uneventful Life

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Stephen Allen Bemis (1828-1919) left Massachusetts in 1846 to live in Chicago. He lived in California from 1852-1854 and 1860-1867. Recollections of a Long and Somewhat Uneventful Life are Bemis' reminiscences of the 1852 journey to California with a Panama crossing. He provides more details of his second stay in California. These include an overland driving of a herd of livestock in 1860, a reunion with his wife and children in San Francisco, his trying a variety of businesses, and his 1867 return to St. Louis.

Sources Library of Congress. California As I Saw It, 1849-1900. Vol. 174. [database online] Washington: Library of Congress, 2000. Bemis, Stephen A. Recollections of a Long and Somewhat Uneventful Life. St. Louis, MO: 1932.

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