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Eldorado: Adventures in the Path of Empire
Eldorado Adventures in the Path of Empire Author:Bayard Taylor Baynard Taylor was sent by Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune to San Francisco in September 1849 to report on the Gold Rush. He was already well known as a chronicler of his travels in Europe "with knapsack and staff." This book is a treasure, and it is the source of the phrase, "Go west, young man."