Item #54175 Weekly Pacific News. Per Steamer "Tennessee" - San Francisco, Cal., Monday, July 15, 1850.
Weekly Pacific News. Per Steamer "Tennessee" - San Francisco, Cal., Monday, July 15, 1850.

Weekly Pacific News. Per Steamer "Tennessee" - San Francisco, Cal., Monday, July 15, 1850.

San Francisco, CA: [Faulkner & Leland], 15 July 1850. "Steamer Edition," this issue only (this newspaper was published bi-monthly 1 September 1849 - 30 October 1850; 21 different issues seem to be extant, scattered in as many institutions, with eight issues known in a single copy, the others known in multiple copies, as many as eight for the March 1, 1850, issue, no more than three for any other). Folio. Four pages, each printed in six columns. Prints news of the Fourth of July celebrations, overland travels, the gold diggings, the complete text of William Van Voorhies's San Jose celebration from the fourth, extensive notes from travels "through Lower California," a letter on the Whitman murders in Oregon denying the involvement of Catholic priests, business notes, etc. Folded (some separation along folds, with the loss of a number of words).. (1398). Item #54175

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