The German Emigrants: or, Frederick Wohlgemuth's Voyage to California by Dr. Dietrich. Translated by Leopold Wray

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Dr. Dietrich

The German Emigrants: or, Frederick Wohlgemuth’s Voyage to California by Dr. Dietrich. Translated by Leopold Wray

Guben: Printed by F. Fechner, [1852?]

German literary travel account of a Prussian boy, Fred Wolgemuth, his family, and their emigration to California during the Gold Rush era, illustrated with eight hand-colored lithographs. The episodes recounted in the text include a gruesome wreckage of a Portuguese slave ship and an unsuccessful attempt to free a group of blacks in Havana. Arriving in San Francisco, Fred and the ship’s captain join the hordes searching for gold in the mountains. Overcoming encounters with robbers, they finally strike it rich at the book’s happy ending. References to Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, at the height of its popularity in 1852, as well as to the San Francisco fire of 1851, strongly suggest a publication date of ca. 1852. “Leopold Wray” is a pseudonym for Clara de Chatelain (1807-1876), the translator.

Gumuchian I, 2204. R.E. Cowan and R.G. Cowan, A Bibliography of the History of California 1510-1930, 169

Dr. Dietrich

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