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Ch. 5: Southwest the Course

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The gold-seekers who took ship from San Diego or Los Angeles at the end of the southwestern trail found San Francisco (above, in 1849) a feverish tent-town, with on every side "buildings of all kinds, begun or half-finished, and the greater part of them mere canvas sheds open in front and covered with signs in all languages." Portsmouth Square (below) boasted the "El Dorado" gam­bling house and the "Parker House" hotel, a frame structure whose second floor was occupied en­tirely by gamblers.
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