Sunday, May 31, 2009

For the New Gold Regions

Quite a number of our citizens are talking of visiting the new El Dorado in Washington territory and the adjacent British dominions, the coming summer. They think of purchasing and fitting up a steamboat and going up the Missouri river to the Rocky Mountains. A number of boats are advertised at St. Louis, destined for the same section.

– Published in the Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday, April 19, 1862, p. 1

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