1.
- Creator:
- Christman, Enos, 1828-1912
- Published / Created:
- 1849 April 9
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-1266
- Collection Title:
- Journals and correspondence, 1849-1896.
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder Moving to California in 1849 by E. L. Christman
- Image Count:
- 15
- Abstract:
- Enos Christman's journals describe his 1849 sea voyage around the Horn from Philadelphia to San Francisco, his work in the gold fields and for the Sonora Herald. Pasted into the back of one journal are newspaper clippings of Christman's letters to Pennsylvania newspapers from his vacations in southern California, dated 1891-1896. There is correspondence between Christman and his fiancée Ellen A. Apple, his patron Henry S. Evans, his companion DeWitt Clinton Atkins, his friend Enos Prizer, and others.
- Subject (Geographic):
- California--Description and travel and California--Gold discoveries
- Subject (Name):
- Apple, Ellen A, Atkins, DeWitt Clinton, Evans, Henry S, and Prizer, Enos
- Subject (Topic):
- Frontier and pioneer life--California, Gold mines and mining--California, Journalism--California, Sonora Herald (1850), and Voyages to the Pacific coast
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Going to California in 1849 by E. L. Christman
