02329cam a22003491  4500001001300000003000400013005001700017007001500034007001500049008004100064010001700105040001900122043001200141050001500153100003800168245006900206260005800275300002900333520107700362530007201439540004201511530006901553651004001622651003401662650003401696650003101730650003001761650004101791650004001832856005601872856005101928rc 01000794 DLC20260227111901.0cr |||||||||||cr_|||||||||||910517s1855    mdu           000 0 eng    arc 01000794   aDLCcCarPdDLC  an-us-ca00aF865b.H481 aHelper, Hinton Rowan,d1829-1909.14aThe land of gold.bReality versus fiction.cBy Hinton H. Helper.  aBaltimore,bPub. for the author, by H. Taylor,c1855.  axii, [13]-300 p.c19 cm.  aHinton Rowan Helper (1829-1909) of North Carolina became one of the South's most controversial figures in the 1850s for his criticisms of slavery in The land of gold and his better known book, The impending crisis. Indeed, he found it prudent to move to New York before the Civil War, and he received diplomatic appointments in Latin America from the Lincoln administration. The land of gold (1855) draws on Helper's three years residence in California and leads him to the conclusion, "California is the poorest State in the Union." Aside from gold, he can see nothing to recommend the state economically, and his book damns the state's populace in terms of morals and intelligence. He spends three chapters dismissing San Francisco (although he later has good words for the Vigilance Committee), is disgusted by the Digger Indians at Bodega, finds fault with Sacramento, and reflects on prospecting on Yuba River and at Columbia. Some good words are reserved for Stockton, but on the whole, Helper writes to discourage emigrants from retracing his course round the Horn.  aAlso available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.  aNo known restrictions on publication.  aAlso available in digital form on the Internet Archive Web site. 0aCaliforniaxDescription and travel. 0aCaliforniaxGold discoveries. 0aVoyages to the Pacific coast. 0aEthnic groupszCalifornia. 0aUrbanizationzCalifornia. 0aReal estate developmentzCalifornia. 0aLawxPolitical aspectszCalifornia.41dcalbkf075qtuhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/calbk.07541uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00058526319