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1	Title:	Eureka: from Cleveland by ship to California, 1849-1850
	Creator:	Fletcher, Robert Samuel, 1900-1959
	Publication:	Duke University Press, Durham, N.C,1959.
	Call #:	F34DC F61
	Extent:	145 p. illus. 21 cm.
	Subjects:	Eureka (Barque) \| Voyages to the Pacific coast \| Ohio -- History -- 1787-1865
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2	Title:	Anne Scarr Bowler Diary
	Creator:	Bowler, Anne Scarr
	Dates:	1849-1851
	Abstract:	Anne Scarr Bowler was an English immigrant who settled in Royalton, Ohio. She was the wife of F. J. Scarr, and later married William Bowler. The collection consists of a diary kept while on a voyage from Cleveland, Ohio, to San Francisco, California. Includes three letters to members of her family.
	Call #:	MS 2781
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Bowler, Anne Scarr. \| Travelers -- United States -- Diaries. \| Voyages to the Pacific coast.
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3	Title:	Records of a California family: journals and letters of Lewis C. Gunn and Elizabeth Le Breton Gunn
	Creator:	Gunn, Lewis C. (Lewis Carstairs), 1813-1892
		Gunn, Elizabeth Le Breton, 1811-1906
		Marston, Anna Lee, 1853-1940
	Publication:	A.L. Marston], San Diego, Calif,1928.
	Notes:	"Three hundred copies of this book were printed for Anna Lee Marston by Johnck and Seeger in San Francisco..."--Colophon.
	Call #:	Gunn family
	Extent:	279 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 24 cm.
	Subjects:	Gunn Family \| Voyages to the Pacific coast \| California -- Description and travel
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4	Title:	A pioneer of 1850: George Willis Read, 1819-1880; the record of a journey overland from Independence, Missouri, to Hangtown (Placerville), California, in the spring of 1850, with a letter from the diggings in October of the same year and an account of a journey from New York to California, via Panama, in 1862, capture by the Confederate raider Alabama, etc., and a visit to the Nevada silver mining district in 1863
	Creator:	Read, George Willis, 1819-1880
		Read, Georgia Willis
	Publication:	Little, Brown, and company, Boston,1927.
	Notes:	Bibliography: p. [161]-172.
	Call #:	F42J R282
	Extent:	xxvi, 185 p. front. (port.) plates, fold. map. 23 cm.
	Subjects:	Overland journeys to the Pacific \| Voyages to the Pacific coast \| California -- Gold discoveries
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5	Title:	Los gringos: or, An inside view of Mexico and California, with wanderings in Peru, Chile, and Polynesia
	Creator:	Wise, Henry Augustus, 1819-1869
	Publication:	Baker and Scribner, 145 Nassau Street and 36 Park Row, New York,1849.
	Notes:	Mormon content: p. 70, 73.
	Call #:	F1213 W811 1849
	Extent:	xvi, 453 p. ; 20 cm.
	Subjects:	Voyages to the Pacific coast \| Mexico -- Description and travel \| California -- Description and travel \| Polynesia
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6	Title:	Los gringos: or, An inside view of Mexico and California
	Creator:	Wise, Henry Augustus, 1819-1869
	Publication:	C. Scribner, New York,1857.
	Call #:	F1213 W811 1857
	Extent:	xvi, 453 p. ; 20 cm.
	Subjects:	Voyages to the Pacific coast \| California -- Description and travel \| Mexico -- Description and travel \| Polynesia
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7	Title:	The land of gold: Reality versus fiction
	Creator:	Helper, Hinton Rowan, 1829-1909
	Publication:	Pub. for the author, by H. Taylor, Baltimore,1855.
	Call #:	F65JE H483
	Extent:	xii, [13]-300 p. 19 cm.
	Subjects:	Voyages to the Pacific coast \| California -- Description and travel \| California -- Gold discoveries
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8	Title:	A pictorial view of California: including a description of the Panama and Nicaragua routes, with information and advice interesting to all, particularly those who intend to visit the golden region
	Creator:	Letts, J. M. (John M.)
		A returned Californian.
	Publication:	H. Bill, New York,1853.
	Notes:	"Sold only by subscription."
	Call #:	F65JE L651
	Extent:	vii, [9]-224 p. 48 pl. (incl. front.) 24 cm.
	Subjects:	Voyages to the Pacific coast \| California -- Gold discoveries \| California -- Social life and customs
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9	Title:	Journal of a voyage to California: and life in the gold diggings. And also of a voyage from California to the Sandwich Islands
	Creator:	Lyman, Albert.
	Publication:	E.T. Pease, Dexter & Bro, Hartford, Conn, New York,1852.
	Call #:	F65D L986
	Extent:	192 p. front., illus. 20 cm.
	Subjects:	Voyages to the Pacific coast \| California -- Gold discoveries \| Hawaii -- Description and travel
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10	Title:	California and Oregon: or, Sights in the gold region, and scenes by the way
	Creator:	Johnson, Theodore T. (Theodore Taylor), b. 1818
		Thurston, Samuel Royal, 1816-1851
	Publication:	Lippincott, Grambo & Co., successors to Grigg, Elliot & Co, Philadelphia,1851.
	Notes:	Cf. Sabin 36329. First edition, New York, 1849, published under title: Sights in the gold region, and scenes by the way.
	Call #:	B 8065
	Extent:	xii, 348 p. fold. map, 6 plates. 20 cm.
	Subjects:	Voyages to the Pacific coast \| California -- Gold discoveries \| California -- Description and travel \| Panama -- Description and travel \| Oregon -- Description and travel
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11	Title:	Eldorado: or, Adventures in the path of empire, comprising a voyage to California, via Panama; life in San Francisco and Monterey; pictures of the gold region, and experiences of Mexican travel
	Creator:	Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878
	Publication:	G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York,1850.
	Notes:	LA1608-213 James A. Garfield bookplate "Lucretia R. Garfield Oct. 1884." Location: 213.28 bottom shelf. Added t.-p., engraved, with vignette.
	Call #:	LA1608-213
	Extent:	xiv, 444 p. : front. ; 20 cm.
	Subjects:	Voyages to the Pacific coast \| California -- Gold discoveries \| California -- Description and travel \| Mexico -- Description and travel
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12	Title:	California gold rush: diary of Charles H. Harvey, February 12-November 12, 1852
	Creator:	Harvey, Charles H., 1825-1864
		Ball, Edmund F.
		Clanin, Douglas E.
		Indiana Historical Society
	Publication:	Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis,1983.
	Notes:	On spine: Diary of Charles H. Harvey. Includes bibliographies.
	Call #:	F65J H341 1983
	Extent:	xxii, 136 p. : ill. ; 18 x 23 cm.
	Subjects:	Harvey, Charles H., -- 1825-1864 \| Voyages to the Pacific coast \| California -- Description and travel \| California -- Gold discoveries
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13	Title:	History of California: from its discovery to the present time ; comprising also a full description of its climate, surface, soil, rivers, towns, beasts, birds, fishes, state of its society, agriculture, commerce, mines, mining, &c., with a journal of the voyage from New York, via Nicaragua, to San Francisco, and back, via Panama with a new map of the country
	Creator:	Capron, E. S. (Elisha Smith), 1806-1883?
	Publication:	J.P. Jewett & Company, Jewett, Proctor and Worthington, Boston, Cleveland, O,1854.
	Call #:	F65D C254
	Extent:	xi, 356 p., [1] p. of plates : col. fold. map ; 19 cm.
	Subjects:	Gold mines and mining -- California \| Voyages to the Pacific coast \| California -- History \| California -- Description and travel \| San Francisco (Calif.) -- Description \| Cleveland imprints 1854
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14	Title:	Narrative of a voyage to the northwest coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814: or, The first American settlement of the Pacific
	Creator:	Francháere, Gabriel, 1786-1863
		Huntington, J. V. (Jedediah Vincent), 1815-1862
	Publication:	Redfield, New York,1854.
	Notes:	Original French edition published 1820.
	Call #:	F66D F816
	Extent:	376 p. front., plates. 19 cm.
	Subjects:	Fur trade -- Oregon \| Voyages to the Pacific coast \| Oregon -- History -- To 1859 \| Astoria (Or.) \| Northwest, Canadian -- Description and travel
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15	Title:	California and Oregon: or, Sights in the gold region, and scenes by the way
	Creator:	Johnson, Theodore T. (Theodore Taylor), b. 1818
		Thurston, Samuel Royal, 1816-1851
	Publication:	Lippincott, Philadelphia,1857.
	Call #:	B 7750
	Extent:	xii, 348 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
	Subjects:	Voyages to the Pacific coast \| California -- Gold discoveries \| California -- Description and travel \| Panama -- Description and travel \| California \| Oregon
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16	Title:	John Weld Brown Letters
	Creator:	Brown, John Weld
	Dates:	1851-1866
	Abstract:	John Weld Brown (b. 1828) was a farmer, trader, and gold miner in and around Nevada City, Marysville, and Yuba City, California. The collection consists of letters from Brown to relatives in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and in Rhode Island, relating to his journey from Cleveland, Ohio, to Nevada City, California, 1851-1852, and his subsequent activities, and touching upon the hardships of the trip by boat to the West, the economic situation in California, and personal and family matters.
	Call #:	MS 0350
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Brown family. \| Brown, John Weld, b. 1828. \| Travelers -- United States -- Correspondence. \| Voyages to the Pacific coast. \| Farmers -- California -- Correspondence. \| Gold miners -- California -- Correspondence. \| California -- Description and travel -- 19th century.
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17	Title:	Diary of Howard Stillwell Stanfield: overland trip from Indiana to California, 1864: via Virginia City, Montana territory, and sea voyage from San Francisco to New York, 1865, via Panama
	Creator:	Stanfield, Howard Stillwell, 1846-1923
		Detzler, Jack J.
		Indiana University Indiana University publications.
	Publication:	Indiana University Press, Bloomington,1969.
	Notes:	Bibliography: p. 166-173.
	Call #:	F42HA S785
	Extent:	viii, 232 p. illus., maps, ports. 24 cm.
	Subjects:	Stanfield, Howard Stillwell, -- 1846-1923 -- Diaries \| Overland journeys to the Pacific \| Voyages to the Pacific coast \| West (U.S.) -- Description and travel \| West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890
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18	Title:	Deck and port: or, Incidents of a cruise in the United States frigate Congress to California ; with sketches of Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu, and San Francisco
	Creator:	Colton, Walter, 1797-1851
	Publication:	A.S. Barnes & Co, H.W. Derby & Co, New York, Cincinnati,1850.
	Call #:	F2223 C725
	Extent:	408 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
	Subjects:	Congress (Frigate) \| Voyages to the Pacific coast \| South America -- Description and travel \| Honolulu (Hawaii) -- Description \| California -- Description and travel \| Ohio imprints 1850
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19	Title:	Journal of an exploring tour beyond the Rocky mountains
	Creator:	Parker, Samuel, 1779-1866
		American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
	Publication:	J.C. Derby & Co, M.H. Newman & Co.; [etc., etc.], Auburn [N.Y.], New York,1846, c1838.
	Notes:	Includes one chapter on the Hawaiian islands. "Vocabulary of Indian languages" (Nez Percâe, Klikitat, Calapooya, Chinook): p. [407]-422.
	Call #:	F66J P243J4
	Extent:	xvi, [17]-422 p. incl. pl. front. (fold. map) 19 cm.
	Subjects:	Overland journeys to the Pacific \| Indians of North America -- Oregon \| Voyages to the Pacific coast \| Hawaii -- Description and travel \| Oregon -- Description and travel
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20	Title:	Lewis Schaaf Diary
	Creator:	Schaaf, Lewis
	Dates:	1868-1872
	Abstract:	Lewis Schaaf was a Brooklyn, Ohio, native who traveled to California and Nevada in 1868, working as a teamster and logcutter in the Sierra Nevada mountains before becoming disenchanted with life on the frontier and returning to Ohio three years later. The collection consists of an electrostatic copy of a diary chronicling Schaaf's experiences on the far Western frontier. The diary details Schaaf's journey west by ship via Panama and his life in a lumber camp in the Sierra Nevadas, describing the social life on the frontier, including his involvement in the local Odd Fellows lodge, the celebration at the completion of the transcontinental railroad, as well as train robberies and community destruction from fires. Included are everyday details of pioneering life such as recipes for tobacco substitutes and ways to clear mosquitoes from a room.
	Call #:	MS 4417
	Extent:	0.10 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Schaaf, Lewis, 1846-1889. \| Union Pacific Railroad Company. \| Central Pacific Railroad Company. \| Frontier and pioneer life -- California. \| Frontier and pioneer life -- Nevada. \| Voyages to the Pacific coast. \| California -- Description and travel. \| Nevada -- Description and travel. \| Sierra Nevada Mountains (Calif. and Nevada)
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