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The emigrant's guide to California, describing its geography, agricultural and commercial resources. : Containing a well-arranged list of the commodities most desirable for exporting to that country, with a table of the duties. Also, some useful information for commanders of vessels, and for the overland travelers through Texas. Together with a valuable map, on which the various routes are traced, and an authenticsketch of San Francisco; to which is appended the governor of California's (Colonel Mason's) official despatches concerning the gold districts
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The "California Gold Rush Fleet Encyclopedia of Vessels Sailing from the East Coast of the United States and Canada for San Francisco, December 7, 1848-December 31, 1849" comprises individual histories of 762 ships as well as various subject files, arranged in alphabetical order. Goodman records a broad spectrum of information derived from a variety of sources about the multitude of Gold Rush vessels. The bulk of the manuscripts are photocopies and some are heavily annotated in the author's hand. Some histories include hand colored illustrations of maps and ships. They were written and edited between 1970-1991.
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