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Eldorado: Adventures in the Path of Empire (California Legacy Book)
Eldorado Adventures in the Path of Empire - California Legacy Book Author:Bayard Taylor Bayard Taylor was among the thousands of young men who came to California in 1849 for the gold rush. Sent by his publisher, Horace Greeley, he came not to find a fortune, but to share his thoughts and experiences with the readers of the New York Tribune. Taylor wrote of what he sawthe growth and popularity of San Francisco and the Bay Area... more », the immediate creation of townships nestled in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas to house the immigrants, the California constitutional convention, and the circumstances that wealth created, both good and badand Taylor's words helped to form many of the perceptions that have shaped modern-day California. With a new foreword by James D. Houston, an afterword by Roger Kahn, and annotations by Robert Senkewicz, Eldorado is an essential contribution to the literature of the West.« less