01820cam a22003251  4500001001300000003000400013005001700017007001500034007001500049008004100064010001700105040001900122043002100141050001500162051003100177100005200208245008200260260004200342300002400384520065200408530007201060540004201132530006901174651003401243651004001277650003401317651003601351856005601387856005101443rc 01000797 DLC20260227111901.0cr |||||||||||cr_|||||||||||830505s1849    nyu           000 0 eng    arc 01000797   aDLCcCarPdDLC  an-us-caancpn---00aF865b.J68  aF865b.J68 Copy 2cCopy 2.1 aJohnson, Theodore T.q(Theodore Taylor),d1818-10aSights in the gold region, and scenes by the way.cBy Theodore T. Johnson ...  aNew York,bBaker and Scribner,c1849.  axii, 278 p.c20 cm.  aTheodore Taylor Johnson of New Jersey sailed to California in February 1849 and had returned home by the end of June. Sights in the gold region (1849) is the first published book to relate authentic personal experiences in the California gold fields. Johnson describes his voyage to California and Panama crossing and prospecting in the Culomma Valley. He also writes of his return to San Francisco in the hope of finding work at the end of spring and his discouraged decision to take passage home, again crossing the Isthmus again at Chagres. Personal recollections are fleshed out with second hand discussions of the state's history and culture.  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. 0aCaliforniaxGold discoveries. 0aCaliforniaxDescription and travel. 0aVoyages to the Pacific coast. 0aPanamaxDescription and travel.41dcalbkf076qtuhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/calbk.07641uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00019480811