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Ch. 5: Southwest the Course

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106 Gold Rush Album
Frank Marryat, Mountains and Molehills. 1855. Courtesy, The New-York Historical Society, New York City
The visitor hadn't far to go for a game of chance. Dozens of gambling houses stood around Portsmouth Square—Denison's Exchange, the El Dorado, the St. Charles, the Bella Union. At the end of the gambling room was always a bar (above), "supplied with all kinds of bad liquor." The El Dorado featured a muscular lady violinist—across the square at the Verandah, there was a "one-man band." Even in a humble place like the ship's cabin made into a shore restaurant as shown below, breakfast cost one dollar.
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