El Dorado: Or Adventures in the Path of Empire by Bayard Taylor

Bayard Taylor’s firsthand account of California in the historic year of 1849 captures the people, scenery, mining camps, and rapidly changing society of the Gold Rush. Traveling as a journalist rather than a fortune seeker, Taylor recorded San Francisco’s explosive growth, early mining methods, the state’s first constitutional convention, inland ranches, missions, valleys, and the experiences of overland emigrants.

Features

• Firsthand narrative of Gold Rush-era California
• Accounts of early mining camps and mining methods
• Observations of San Francisco in 1849
• Coverage of missions, ranches, valleys, and overland migration
• Introduction by Robert Glass Cleland

Specifications

• Author: Bayard Taylor
• Introduction: Robert Glass Cleland
• Format: Paperback
• ISBN-10: 0803294131
• ISBN-13: 9780803294134