Eugène Buissonet journal : ms., 1868 Oct.-1869 Jan.

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Eugène Buissonet journal : ms., 1868 Oct.-1869 Jan.

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Authorship attributed to Buissonet on basis of internal evidence and passenger list of the China in the Alta California. Description of travels from Shanghai, via Japan, to San Francisco in Pacific Mail Steamship Company vessels, and across the United States by stage coach and railroad to New York, with impressions of San Francisco, a visit to the Grass Valley gold mines, description of hydraulic mining, visit to Virginia City, Nevada, and its silver mines, the Central Pacific Railroad then in course of construction, impressions of Salt Lake City, a visit with Brigham Young, and a trip east on the uncompleted Union Pacific Railroad. Also includes descriptions of cockfights and gambling in New Orleans; the grain market and slaghter houses of Chicago; Niagara Falls, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and Boston; the Merrimack cotton mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, and New York.

Originals : 344 p. ; 28 cm.Copies : partial microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 550:11) and positive.

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Pacific Mail Steamship Company

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The Pacific Mail Steamship Company was incorporated in 1848 to engage in the steamship business after receiving a contract from the U.S. government to provide mail service between Panama and the Oregon coast. The organizer and first president of the company was William H. Aspinwall. The company prospered, expanded its fleet, and began service to the Orient in 1867. By the mid-1880s they were sailing to 47 ports across the Pacific Ocean, including ports in Central America and Mexico. T...

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