The Panama route, 1848-1869
By: by John Haskell Kemble.
Series: University of California publications in history, vol. xxix. Editors: H. E. Bolton, G. H. Guttridge, F. L. Paxson
Publisher: University of California press
Published: 1943
Place of publication: Berkley and Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Pacific Mail Steamship Company.; United States Mail Steamship Company.; Voyages to the Pacific coast.; Postal service -- United States.
Description: "For two decades, the Panama route was the best way of travel and communication between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States. Annually, thousands of passengers went over it eastward and westward, as well as vast volumes of mail and treasure... The present study has grown from a lifelong interest in maritime history and particularly from an early concern with the history of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. It has taken shape with the discovery of materials and has therefore given the author the joy of exploration in little-charted seas"--Pref.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [289]-304.
Based on thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, 1937.