Sketches of California.
Subtitle: An account of the life, manners and customs of the inhabitants. Its history, climate, soil, productions, &c.
By: By Frederick A. Gay. Also interesting information in relation to the canchalagua, a Californian plant of rare medicinal virtues. [New York, 1848.]
Publisher: Reprinted, W. Abbatt
Published: 1925
Place of publication: [Tarrytown, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 47
Subjects: Canchalagua; Urbanization -- California; Real estate development -- California; Agriculture -- California; California
Description: Frederick A. Gay, proprietor of "Gay's Canchalagua" at 36 Broadway in New York City, had developed a patent medicine based on canchalagua, a California herb. Sketches of California (1848), printed here from a version published in the Magazine of history of 1925, is an early piece of pre-Gold Rush promotional literature for California settlement in which Gay focuses on the region's potential for agriculture and livestock, with special emphasis on canchalagua.
Notes: Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
In: The Magazine of history, with notes and queries. Tarrytown, N.Y., 1925. 27 cm. Extra number. no. 110 (v. 28, no. 2) 3 p.l., [9]-47 p.
At head of title: For gratuitous distribution.
Pages 36-47 advertising Gay's "Extract of canchalagua."