California in 1849.
Publisher: L'Illustration
Published: 1933
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 44
Subjects: Voyages to the Pacific coast.; Frontier and pioneer life -- California.; Mines and mineral resources -- California.; Business -- California.; California -- Gold discoveries.
Description: Charles F. Hotchkiss (b. ca. 1807) was a New Haven, Connecticut merchant, who sailed to California in December, 1848, bringing a cargo of goods for the miners across Panama at Chagres. California in 1849 (1933) was written out by Hotchkiss at the age of seventy-three and published more than fifty years later in The Magazine of history. He recalls his experiences as a merchant in San Francisco and Stockton before his return to Connecticut in 1850 with a profit of $23,000.
Notes: Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
In: The Magazine of history, with notes and queries. New York, N.Y., 1933. 27 cm. Extra number. no. 191 (v. 48, no. 3) p. [23]-44.
Signed: C.F. Hotchkiss.
Originally issued as part of the author's On the ebb, New Haven, 1878.