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Notes of a voyage to California via Cape Horn, together with scenes in El Dorado, in the years of 1849-'50. With an appendix containing reminiscences ... together with the articles of association and roll of members of "The associated pioneers of the territorial days of California."

by: Upham, Samuel C. (Samuel Curtis), 1819-1885

Publication date: 1878

Topics: Associated Pioneers of the Territorial Days of California, Voyages to the Pacific coast, Ethnic groups, Law, Business

Publisher: Philadelphia, The author

Collection: library_of_congress; zamorano80; americana; additional_collections

Contributor: The Library of Congress

Language: English

On cover: Scenes in El Dorado in the years 1849-'50

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