1860 California Life Illustrated Golden Gate Gold Mine

1860 California Life Illustrated Golden Gate Gold Mine San Francisco Missionary

William Taylor (1821-1902) was a Methodist minister specializing in "street preaching." The Methodist church sent him to California as a missionary evangelist in 1849. He remained in the West for seven years, going on to become one of the church's most tireless worldwide evangelists traveling around the globe. Taylor spent his last years in California, the site of his first mission.

‘California Life Illustrated’ expands on his reminiscences in ‘Seven years' street preaching in San Francisco’. He describes his voyage to California and gives details of family life, social life, politics and church history in San José, Santa Cruz, and Sacramento. He comments at length on California agriculture and mineral resources and offers a chapter on mining camp life. After founding the Powell Street church, Taylor explains, he undertook a mission to sailors in San Francisco which left him so burdened by debt that he returned east to publish books and conduct revivals in the hope of putting his finances in order, which seems to have worked as Kurutz, calls him "A prolific and entertaining writer."

This mid-19th century book by Taylor, ‘California Life Illustrated’ contains 15 plates of illustrations!

Item number: #7320

Price: $350

TAYLOR, William

California life illustrated.

New York : Pub. for the author, by Carlton & Porter, 1860.

Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

348, [6]

Illustrated with 16 engravings

References: Cowan p. 227; Soliday IV 838; Sabin 94547: Kurutz 621a;

Language: English

Binding: Cloth; tight and secure

Size: ~7.5in X 5.5in (19cm x 13.5cm)

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Condition Report: Excellent.