Title: Mercer's belles
Description: Diary of a "New York Times" reporter who accompanied a shipload of matrimony-minded women and their agent, Asa Mercer, from the east coast to San Francisco and Seattle in 1866.
Subjects: Continental (Steamship), Description and travel, Travel, Voyages to the Pacific coast, Journalists, biography, United states, biography
Places: Pacific Coast (U.S.)
People: A. S. Mercer (1839-1917), Roger Conant (1833-1915)