California Narratives: Glimpses of Hungryland

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W.S. Walker left Mason City, Illinois for New York City and his first trip to California (via the Isthmus) in 1864. This database describes his stay in the West in 1880. His stay included a series of odd jobs in Sonoma County, gold prospecting at Park's Bar on the Yuba River, and a revival camp meeting near Healdsburg. In 1879, he took his family from Omaha to California by rail on the "Emigrant Train" and gave a tourist's account of San Francisco.

Sources Library of Congress. California As I Saw It, 1849-1900. Vol. 206. [database online] Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2000. Original data: Walker, W.S. Glimpses of Hungryland; Or, California Sketches: Comprising Sentimental and Humorous Sketches, Poems, Etc., A Journey to California and Back Again, By Land and Water. Cloverdale, CA: Reveille Publishing House, 1880.

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