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Eldorado, or Adventures in the Path of Empire, ‘Eldorado’ is considered one of the best contemporary accounts of the California gold rush by a highly renowned traveler. Taylor had a great eye for detail, and shares some fascinating experiences in this work. His impressions of San Francisco, which basically presents a picture of a very busy unfinished frontier town, are especially interesting...Taylor spends a lot of time discussing the gold rush, and concludes that gold prospecting isn’t for the sickly or faint of heart, because you need to be able to survive in some difficult surroundings, and with some mighty tough characters. |
