The land of gold
Subtitle: reality versus fiction
By: by Hinton R. Helper
Publisher: Published for the author, by Henry Taylor
Published: 1855
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Voyages to the Pacific coast.; California -- Gold discoveries.; California -- Description and travel.
Notes: "An entertaining book.  One chapter is closed with the charming remark that 'it is my unbiased opinion that California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America.'  Seventy-five years have wrought no visible change."--Cowan, p. 274.

Cowan, R. Bibliography of California, p. 274.