Harvey Rice, Letters from California, 1870

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As a tourist destination, California was rapidly gaining ground against other domestic locations in the late nineteenth century. This database is the account of a husband and wife who traveled to the state in 1870. Harvey Rice was a Cleveland lawyer who recounts their railroad journey west in this narrative originally published in 1870. It includes descriptions of Salt Lake City, Carson City, Lake Tahoe, San Pedro and Los Angeles. The couple remained in the San Francisco area for over a month and this collection contains their musings regarding the ranches, farms, and orchards of the region. For researchers wishing to better understand the culture and society in which their California ancestors may have lived, this can be an interesting and illuminating database.

Sources Library of Congress. California As I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years. Vol. 99. [database on-line] Washington: Library of Congress, 1999. Rice, Harvey. Letters from the Pacific Slope. New York: Appleton and Co., 1870.

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