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  • Introduction
  • "Morning of the 15th.
  • "15th, Evening.
  • "Chagres, Feb. 16th.
  • Introductory Chapter
  • CHAPTER I.
  • CHAPTER II.
  • CHAPTER III.
  • CHAPTER IV
  • CHAPTER V.
  • CHAPTER VI.
  • CHAPTER VII.
  • CHAPTER VIII.
  • CHAPTER IX.
  • CHAPTER X.
  • APPENDIX
  • Five Letters Written From the Isthmus in 1849, by W. H. Hecox.
  • Arrival of Vessels and Passengersat Chagres for California
  • INDEX

    • California as I saw it; pencillings by the way of its gold and gold diggers, and incidents of travel by land and water. With five letters from the Isthmus by W.H. Hecox. Edited by Dale L. Morgan

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    THE ROAD

    from

    CHAGRES TO PANAMA

    according to N. GARELLA, FALMAR and others

    by

    H. TIEDEMANN

    CIVIL ENGINEER

    Published by E. L. AUTENRIETH engr. on stone by

    J SCHEDLER

    NEW YORK

    1851




    This text is based on the following book(s):
    60-9512. Selected from the collections of the Library of Congress. A 464955.

    Dr. William S. McCollum (1807/1808-1882) was born in Pennsylvania and grew up in Niagara County, New York. He went to California in 1849, returned to New York the following year and then paid a second visit to California as a physician for the Panama Railroad Company. California as I saw it (1960) reprints McCollum's 1850 book describing his first visit to the West: San Francisco in 1849, a journey to Stockton and the Southern Mines and to Sacramento and the Northern Mines, prospecting near Jacksonville, and medical practice in Stockton and San Francisco. After describing his return voyage east via Panama, McCollum closes with advice and reflections on the law of the mines, Native Americans, the life of women in California, etc. The book's Appendix include letters written from Panama by H.W. Hecox, McCollum's fellow passenger on the voyage to the Isthmus, February-March 1849. Hecox was so disheartened by his wait for passage to California that he returned to the United States without ever seeing the Pacific Ocean.

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