Frank Marryat, California Mountains and Molehills, 1855

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Americans were not the only persons who traveled to California seeking fortune and fame. This narrative, another in a series provided by the Library of Congress, offers the recollections of a well-to-do British adventurer. Traveling to the area with a manservant and three dogs in 1850, he hoped to find and record whatever his British audience would find exotic or interesting. Researchers will find accounts of horse races, animal hunts, bear and bull fights, and other oddities of Californian society that may help illuminate the larger culture in which their ancestors lived.

Sources Library of Congress. California As I Saw It, 1849-1900. Vol. 10. [database on-line] Washington: Library of Congress, 1999. Marryat, Francis Samuel. Mountains and Molehills: or, Recollections of a Burnt Journal. New York: Harper, 1855.

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