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    • California illustrated; including a description of the Panama and Nicaragua routes. By J.M. Letts

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    ON STONE BY J. CAMERON
    PANAMA, FROM THE BATTERY,
    Cerro Lancon in the background.




    This text is based on the following book(s):
    29-7555. Selected from the collections of the Library of Congress. Copyright status not determined.

    John M. Letts of New York sailed for California via Panama in January 1849. California illustrated (1853) describes that voyage and his landing in San Francisco. Next he travels to Sacramento and the Northern Mines of the American River, where he describes gambling and crime in the camps, Native Americans, and mining techniques. He devotes considerable attention to politics in the camps, focusing on the California Constitutional Convention and debate on slavery 1849. He describes his trip home, with stops at Sacramento and San Francisco and his return to New York via Panama, with notes on stops in Acapulco, Managua, and Chagres.

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