Notes of a Voyage to California Via Cape Horn

Notes of a Voyage to California Via Cape Horn
Author: Samuel Curtis Upham
Publisher:
Total Pages: 606
Release: 1878
Genre: Business
ISBN:

Samuel Curtis Upham (1819-1885) was a clerk in a Philadelphia merchant house when he decided to try his luck in California in January, 1849. Sailing round the Horn, he visited Rio de Janeiro and Talcahuana before landing in San Francisco. After a brief career as a gold miner at the Calaveras diggings, Upham moved to Sacramento, where he published the Sacramento Transcript, May-August 1850. Notes of a voyage to California (1878) includes Upham's memoirs of his early years in California, with special attention to Sacramento's colorful history in 1850. He closes his narrative with a brief description of his return to Philadelphia that same year via Panama. The book's lengthy appendix contains chapters on California journalism, the California exhibition at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition, and various reunion dinners and other events sponsored by the California "Pioneers" association.

Notes of a Voyage to California Via Cape Horn

Notes of a Voyage to California Via Cape Horn
Author: Samuel Curtis Upham
Publisher: Philadelphia :$[s.n.]
Total Pages: 606
Release: 1878
Genre: Associated pioneers of the territorial days of California
ISBN:

Samuel Curtis Upham (1819-1885) was a clerk in a Philadelphia merchant house when he decided to try his luck in California in January, 1849. Sailing round the Horn, he visited Rio de Janeiro and Talcahuana before landing in San Francisco. After a brief career as a gold miner at the Calaveras diggings, Upham moved to Sacramento, where he published the Sacramento Transcript, May-August 1850. Notes of a voyage to California (1878) includes Upham's memoirs of his early years in California, with special attention to Sacramento's colorful history in 1850. He closes his narrative with a brief description of his return to Philadelphia that same year via Panama. The book's lengthy appendix contains chapters on California journalism, the California exhibition at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition, and various reunion dinners and other events sponsored by the California "Pioneers" association.

Notes of a Voyage to California Via Cape Horn

Notes of a Voyage to California Via Cape Horn
Author: Samuel Curtis Upham
Publisher: Sagwan Press
Total Pages: 602
Release: 2015-08-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781296974299

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Notes of a Voyage to California Via Cape Horn

Notes of a Voyage to California Via Cape Horn
Author: Samuel Curtis Upham
Publisher: Sagwan Press
Total Pages: 602
Release: 2018-02-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781376495195

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.