ELDORADO OR ADVENTURES IN THE PATH OF EMPIRE COMPRISING A VOYAGE TO CALIFORNIA, VIA PANAMA; LIFE IN SAN FRANCISCO AND MONTEREY; PICTURES OF THE GOLD REGION, AND EXPERIENCES OF MEXICAN TRAVEL

Taylor, Bayard

Published by G.P. Putnam, New York, 1860

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Octavo, 7.5 in. x 5 in., pp. xiv, 444. Half calf with decorative rule in blind over marbled boards. Gilt title on black panels to spine that is decorated with a gilt floral design. Marbled edges. Rubbing to extremities with scuffs to board edges and vertical center-line of spine. Corners are just showing. Marbled endpapers. Light age-toning to pages. "Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) was already a well-established writer when he traveled to California as special correspondent for the New York Tribune in the summer of 1849. On his return to New York, Taylor established himself not only as one of America's great travel writers but as a true man of letters, producing distinguished novels and poems as well as nonfiction for the next quarter century. Eldorado (1850) consists of Taylor's rewritten dispatches to his paper. Volume 2 tells of the 1849 elections, horseback tours of the Sierras, gold camps on the Mokelumne River, analysis of the 1849 overland emigration, San Francisco social and cultural life, and a return to the East with stops in Guadalajara, Mazatlán, Mexico City, Popcateptel, and Vera Cruz. Thomas Butler King's official report on California, 22 March 1850, is printed as an appendix.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ELDORADO OR ADVENTURES IN THE PATH OF EMPIRE COMPRISING A VOYAGE TO CALIFORNIA, VIA PANAMA; LIFE IN SAN FRANCISCO AND MONTEREY; PICTURES OF THE GOLD REGION, AND EXPERIENCES OF MEXICAN TRAVEL
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam, New York
• Publication Date: 1860
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Eighteenth Edition.
• Condition: Good Plus
• Seller catalogs:
  • Americana, Western