TY - BOOK AU - Ryan,William Redmond TI - Personal adventures in Upper and Lower California, in 1848-9: with the author's experience at the mines. Illustrated by twenty-three drawings .. AV - F865 .R96 PY - 1850/// CY - London PB - W. Shoberl KW - Ethnic groups KW - California KW - Gold discoveries KW - Description and travel KW - Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula) N1 - Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site N2 - An Englishman, William Redmond Ryan (1791-1855) enlisted in an American regiment bound for California and sailed round the Horn in 1847. Personal adventures in Upper and Lower California (1850), vol. 1, describes that voyage to California as well as military life during the Mexican War in Monterey, La Paz, and San Jose (lower California). The first volume closes with Ryan's description of the peacetime rush to the gold mines and his own journey from Monterey to the San Joaquin Valley to the Stanislaus Mine. Vol. 2, continues his story with a chronicle of daily life at the Stanislaus Mine; his career as a trader; travels through Stockton, Monterey, and Sacramento; life in San Francisco, 1849; the Constitutional Convention; and return voyage via Panama, 1849 UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/calbk.120 UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/calbk.121 ER -