Eldorado or, Adventures in the path of empire
Subtitle: comprising a voyage to California, via Panama; life in San Francisco and Monterey; pictures of the gold region, and experiences of Mexican travel
By: By Bayard Taylor. With illustrations by the author
Contributors: King, T. Butler (Thomas Butler), 1800-1864
Publisher: George P. Putnam; Richard Bentley
Published: 1850
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Subjects: Gold discoveries; Description and travel; Voyages to the Pacific coast
Description: Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) was already a well-established writer when he traveled to California as special correspondent for the New York Tribune in the summer of 1849. On his return to New York, Taylor established himself not only as one of America's great travel writers but as a true man of letters, producing distinguished novels and poems as well as nonfiction for the next quarter century. Eldorado (1850) consists of Taylor's rewritten dispatches to his paper. The first volume contains his descriptions of his voyage to California via the Isthmus; the Pacific Coast of Mexico and California; the cities of San Francisco, Sacramento, Stockton, and Monterey; visits to gold fields at Sonora and the Mokelumne River; and the state Constitutional Convention.
Notes: Original printing. (See Bennett ref. below).

Appendix (v.2): Report of Hon. T. Butler King to Hon. John M. Clayton, Secretary of State, p. 201-247.

Advertisements (end of v.2): Putnam's list of new publications, annotated and illustrated. 43 [i.e. 45], [3] p. (pages ff. 13 and 17 numbered 13a and 17a)