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From New York to San Francisco - Travel Sketches from the Year 1869 (Hardcover)
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From New York to San Francisco - Travel Sketches from the Year 1869 (Hardcover)
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Welcome to an America you've never seen. Where anyone can drop by
the White House and visit the President between 10 a.m. and noon;
where cowcatchers are bloodied daily on train tracks between New
York and Boston; where spent bullets are strewn across Civil War
battlefields, and Indians still roam Yosemite Valley; where pigs
rut in the sand-and-clay streets of Washington, DC., and the
weather-bleached skeletons of oxen and horses line the old mail
roads across the West. For three hot summer months in 1869, Ernst
Mendelssohn-Barthody, the nephew of famed composer Felix
Mendelssohn, traveled by train across the United States accompanied
by his older cousin. His letters back home to Prussia offer
fascinating glimpses of a young, rapidly growing America.
Unceasingly annoyed at the Americans' tendency to spit all the
time, the Prussian aristocrats seemingly visited everyone and
everywhere: meeting President Grant and Brigham Young; touring
Niagara Falls, Mammoth Cave, the Redwoods, and Yosemite; taking in
New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Omaha, San Francisco, and
the still war-ravaged city of Richmond; and crossing the continent
by rail just two months after the Union Pacific and Central Pacific
railroads had been joined at Promontory, Utah. Full of marvelous
tales and insightful observations, Ernst Mendelssohn-Barthody's
letters are a revealing window to a long-ago America.
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