West Coast journeys, 1865-1879: the travelogue of a remarkable woman
Etats-Unis (histoire), Voyages et géographie, Colonisation (histoire), Histoire, Voyage (récits), Femmes (biographies)
Audio avec voix humaine, Braille avec transcription humaine
Résumé
A first-person account written by a gentlewoman traveling leisurely through post-Civil War America. In 1865, Caroline Leighton left New York for San Francisco and traveled throughout the Pacific Northwest with her husband for the next fourteen years. She describes such… sights as the California missions, the Rocky Mountains, and Puget Sound, as well as her observations on other cultures, such as the Native Americans, the Chinese, and the Spanish