02406cam a22003851 4500 rc 01000822 DLC 20260227111901.0 cr ||||||||||| 910529s1850 nyuf 000 0 eng rc 01000822 DLC CarP DLC n-mx--- n-us-ca F865 .T23 F865 .T23 Copy 2 Copy2. Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878. 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. By Bayard Taylor ... Eldorado Adventures in the path of empire 2d ed. New York, G.P. Putnam; London, R. Bentley, 1850. 2 v. in 1. col. front., col. plates. 19 cm. Appendix: Report of Hon. T. Butler King. v. 2, p. 199-247. 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, Mazatlàn, Mexico City, Popcateptel, and Vera Cruz. Thomas Butler King's official report on California, 22 March 1850, is printed as an appendix. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. No known restriction on publication. California Gold discoveries. California Description and travel. Voyages to the Pacific coast. Mexico Description and travel. Ethnic groups California. King, T. Butler (Thomas Butler), 1800-1864. Volume 1 calbk 122 t http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/calbk.122 Volume 2 calbk 123 t http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/calbk.123 51919 51919