id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 12518 Knower, Daniel The Adventures of a Forty-niner An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days .txt text/plain 34878 1799 81 territory three times as large as New York and Oregon and the State of conceived at the time, I found the day before I arrived in New York, the There was great California excitement about this time, and other parties could not buy a ticket in New York for the steamer from Panama to San and day, and an extra present to the men if they made good time, for time to go on according to our contract, to be rowed night and day. I said to him, "This vessel is bound for San Francisco, and you He came back in a short time and said he had bought them, and that had not heard of the gold discovery, on his first day in San Francisco, He said a man could make $10 a day, and who was a going One man said he had $10,000 in gold with him; if his ./cache/12518.txt ./txt/12518.txt