Title: Notes of a voyage to California via Cape Horn
First published: 1878
Description: Samuel Curtis Upham (1819-1885) was a clerk in a Philadelphia merchant house when he decided to try his luck in California in January, 1849. Sailing round the Horn, he visited Rio de Janeiro and Talcahuana before landing in San Francisco. After a brief career as a gold miner at the Calaveras diggings, Upham moved to Sacramento, where he published the Sacramento Transcript, May-August 1850. Notes of a voyage to California (1878) includes Upham's memoirs of his early years in California, with special attention to Sacramento's colorful history in 1850. He closes his narrative with a brief description of his return to Philadelphia that same year via Panama. The book's lengthy appendix contains chapters on California journalism, the California exhibition at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition, and various reunion dinners and other events sponsored by the California "Pioneers" association.
Subjects: Associated Pioneers of the Territorial Days of California, Business, Ethnic groups, Gold discoveries, History, Law and politics, Voyages to the Pacific coast, Zamorano 80, Law, Commerce
Places: California, Philadelphia, Rio de Janeiro, Sacramento, San Francisco, Talcahuana
Time periods: 1846-1850, 1848-1869
LC classification: F865 .U67