Bates, Mrs. D. B. - Incidents on Land and Water; or, Four Years on the Pacific Coast

Boston, E. O. Libby and Company, 1858. 7th edition . Hardcover. 200 p. Narrative of captain's wife of ship Nonantum. They seem to have been shipwrecked 3 times on voyage to California. Good condition A native of Kingston, Massachusetts, Mrs. Bates sailed to California in 1850 on board the Nonantum, a coaler commanded by her husband. On reaching that state, the Bateses undertook hotelkeeping in Marysville, 1851-1854. Incidents on land and water (1857) contains Mrs. Bates's hair-raising account of her voyage to California, when fires forced the scuttling of three ships on which the Bateses sailed. Mrs. Bates recounts hardships of the mining town, with special attention to the life of women and children in the camps, and gives details of a tour of the Sacramento Valley.

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