Battle of Backbone Mountain

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Image from: Eldorado; or, Adventures in the path of Empire: comprising a voyage to California, via Panama, life in San Francisco and Monterey, pictures of the gold region, and experiences of Mexican travel. With illustrations by the author — by Bayard Taylor. (page 10)
* Scene of Mission Bay in San Francisco, California, during the early California Gold Rush phase.
Date 1848
date QS:P571,+1848-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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British Library HMNTS 10410.b.29.
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Image extracted from page 10 of Eldorado; or, Adventures in the path of Empire: comprising a voyage to California, via Panama, life in San Francisco and Monterey, pictures of the gold region, and experiences of Mexican travel. With illustrations by the author, by Taylor, Bayard. Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied from Flickr.

Note: The colours, contrast and appearance of these illustrations are unlikely to be true to life. They are derived from scanned images that have been enhanced for machine interpretation and have been altered from their originals.

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