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To California By Sea : A Maritime History of the California Gold Rush Studies in Maritime History
author
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Delgado, James P.
publisher
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University of South Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin
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1570031533
print isbn13
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9781570031533
ebook isbn13
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9780585361482
language
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English
subject
Navigation--California--History--19th century, Shipping--California--History--19th century, California--Gold discoveries.
publication date
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1996
lcc
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VK24.C2D45 1996eb
ddc
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387.5/09794
subject
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Navigation--California--History--19th century, Shipping--California--History--19th century, California--Gold discoveries.
Page i
To California by Sea
Page ii
William N. Still, Jr., Series Editor Studies in Maritime History
Page iii
To California by Sea
A Maritime History of the California Gold Rush
James P. Delgado
Page iv
Disclaimer: Some images in the original version of this book are not available for inclusion in the netLibrary eBook.
Copyright University of South Carolina 1990
Published 1990 Paperback edition 1996
Published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press
Manufactured in the United States of America 00 99 98 97 96 7 6 5 4 3
ISBN 1570031533
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 8939117
Page v
To Doug Nadeau and Ted Hinckley
Page vii
Contents
Illustrations
viii
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xiii
Prologue: Maritime Trade and California Prior to 1848
1
1. By Way of Cape Horn
18
2. Via the Isthmus
47
3. The Port of San Francisco, 18491851
74
4. Regulation and Industrialization
106
5. Maritime Disaster on the Argonaut Mind
142
Conclusion: After the Gold Rush
171
Appendix: Resolution of Shipmasters and Owners, 1850
178
Notes
185
Bibliography
211
Index
227
Page viii
Illustrations
Following page 128
1. Map of the Voyage of Apollo, 1849.
2. San Francisco in 1851.
3. Launch of Flying Cloud.
4. Entrance to the Golden Gate, 1854.
5. Niantic off Panama City.
6. Tennessee.
7. Golden Gate.
8. Forty-niners on the Rio Chagres.
9. View of San Francisco, 1850.
10. Central or "Long" Wharf, 18501851
11. The Signal Stations at Point Lobos and Telegraph Hill.
12. Regulations for the Harbor and Port of San Francisco, 1850.
13. Interior of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's Foundry.
14. Happy Valley, 1851.
15. Euphemia.
16. The Sinking of Central America in 1857.
17. "Disasters of 60 Days."
18. "A Few of the First Steamship Pioneers Living in 1874."
19. Ships Lying Idle on the San Francisco Waterfront, 1851.
Page ix
Preface
I have attempted to relate the story of the transportation of people and goods by water to and from California especially during the gold rush of 18481856. Isolated by 14,000 miles of sea routes from the rest of the United States, California depended on ships for the link to people back home as well as to manufactured goods and commodities not yet available on the frontier. And yet because of the regular maritime traffic between coasts, California was never actually a frontier in the true sense of the word. The tremendous buying power of California gold and the daily arrival of dozens of vessels at the Golden Gate meant that the most up-to-date itemsand the most fashionablewere available in San Francisco and the inland satellite ports not long after they hit the streets of New York, Boston, London, or Paris.
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