Title: Bound for Sacramento;
Authors: Meyer, Carl,; Axe, Ruth Frey.
Publisher: Saunders Studio Press,
Year: 1938
Subjects: Ethnic groups California; Law Political aspects California; California Description and travel.; California Gold discoveries.
Abstract: Carl Meyer was a German-speaking Swiss who traveled to California in 1849. Bound for Sacramento (1938) is the English translation of Nach dem Sacramento, published in the Swiss town of Aarau in 1855. Meyer begins with his 1849 voyage from New Orleans, continuing with tales of the Mariposa and Trinidad gold mines, Stockton, San Francisco, Sacramento, and Mormon Island.
Contents: On the ocean! -- On to the isthmus of Panama -- On to California -- On to the St. Joaquin -- On to the Southern gold mines -- On to San Francisco -- On to North of Upper-California -- On to the Klamath region -- On to New Helvetia -- On to Nicaragua and home!