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by: Bayard Taylor
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 979.404
EAN: 9781890771362
ISBN: 1890771368
Label: Heyday Books
Manufacturer: Heyday Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 411
Publication Date: 2000
Publisher: Heyday Books
Sales Rank: 1060186
Studio: Heyday Books
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Book Description:
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 saw—the growth and popularity of San Francisco and the Bay Area, 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 bad—and 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.
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Rating: - Probably the most outstanding book on early California ever written.....
I can't agree more with the other reviewer who has commented on this book. I also found it accidentally (while looking for books written by James D. Houston), and I also am buying extra copies to give as gifts.
The writing here is majestic, magical, and extremely powerful (yet simple and elegant at the same time). You will learn more about the California of the mid-1800s, by reading this book, than you will probably learn anywhere else. The author was a truly gifted writer, and his ... Read More
Rating: - superb and engaging
I stumbled across this book by accident one day and it has turned out to be my find of 2001 -- one of the most enjoyable books I have read in ages. Taylor, a youthful New York journalist and poet, was sent out to California to file back dispatches on this wild, gold-filled, lush place in the seminal gold rush year of 1849, when California was a sprawling region, and not yet a state. And what a fabulous job he does -- this reads more like an engaging adventure narrative than non-fiction, and I could ... Read More
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