1854 Trip to California: Autograph letter, signed.
by S. Lang?
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[California] S. Lang? Autograph letter, signed. San Francisco, California. June 16, 1852. To his wife. One sheet folded into four leaves. Some 450 words, around 350 on the voyage.
Describes his trip across Panama, including being thrown off his mule, to the amusement of the natives. Also a woman who was a passenger had her two infants being carried by Indian women and they were separated during a torrential downpour. When they had not come to Panama City by nine p.m. they went searching for them and found them at 4 a.m., some 10 miles away "asleep on the bodies of their natives." They stopped to load coal in Acapulco. The passage took 25 days, but he arrived in good health, because until they were within three day of arrival "one might imagine him left on the Hudson Bay River so very smooth was the sea." Nice, if relatively brief, first-hand account of an 1854 steamship voyage to San Francisco.Reviews
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- Title
- 1854 Trip to California
- Author
- S. Lang?
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- 1
- Date Published
- 1854
- Pages
- 4
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Gold Rush 49ers Forty Niners Panama
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