Friend on the American Frontier

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.5406/illinois/9780252038266.003.0011 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

James Emmett Ryan

Keyword(s):

Pacific Coast ◽

Missouri River ◽

Gold Rush ◽

American Frontier ◽

The Pacific ◽

Returning Home

This chapter asks how an ordinary Quaker not involved in the abolition campaign might have considered the matter of slavery and answers this by reading the memoir of Charles Pancoast, A Quaker Forty-Niner: The Adventures of Charles Edward Pancoast on the American Frontier. Pancoast was a Philadelphian Quaker whose time on the frontier in the 1840s and 1850s was marked by a cautious response to the problem of slavery. Most of his account in details his own adventures and fortune-seeking in the Midwest and the Pacific Coast. Failing as a drugstore entrepreneur in Missouri, Pancoast spent time owning and operating a steamship on the Missouri River, and eventually found himself at work and seeking his fortune in business among the gold rush miners of California. In all, young Pancoast spent 14 years afoot in the hinterlands and byways of Western America, before returning home to settle in Philadelphia in 1854 at the age of thirty-six.

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The Sabbath on the Overland Trail to California

Church History ◽

10.2307/3167743 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 59 (3) ◽

pp. 340-355 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Winton U. Solberg

Keyword(s):

Mississippi River ◽

Pacific Coast ◽

Gold Rush ◽

The Pacific ◽

The World ◽

Westward Movement ◽

Overland Trail

The westward movement carried Americans to the banks of the Mississippi River by 1840, and in the following decade hardy pioneers began crossing the plains and mountains to settle on the Pacific coast. Gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill near present-day Sacramento on 24 January 1848, and the ensuing gold rush created a spectacle such as the world had never seen before.

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Celebrity Culture and the Gold Rush Metropolis

10.1093/oso/9780190268978.003.0008 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Amy K. DeFalco Lippert

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Visual Culture ◽

San Francisco ◽

Pacific Coast ◽

Gold Rush ◽

Human Identity ◽

Exchange Networks ◽

Cultural Phenomenon ◽

The Pacific ◽

The City

With the gold rush, San Francisco almost instantaneously became an important stop for a host of international entertainment tours that expanded well beyond the Atlantic world, to Australia as well as the Pacific Coast. The term celebrity was first employed as a noun in the 1840s and 1850s, and from its inception, this cultural phenomenon was intrinsically linked with and profited handsomely from transnational exchange networks—the conduits for the transmission of print and visual culture, as well as the migration of people and capital. Theatrical entertainment flourished in nineteenth-century San Francisco, as did the trade in celebrity portraits. In this context, certain charismatic individuals emerged: notably female stars, including Lola Montez and Adah Isaacs Menken, who embodied the trend of self-representation that overtook the city. The celebrity thrived in a place where human identity could become a consumable commodity—in turn, it often became all-consuming..

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The Philological Association of The Pacific Coast

PMLA ◽

10.1017/s0030812900130597 ◽

1935 ◽

Vol 50 (4) ◽

pp. 1373-1374

Keyword(s):

Annual Meeting ◽

Pacific Coast ◽

Stanford University ◽

The Pacific

The thirty-seventh annual meeting of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast was held at Stanford University, California, on November 29 and 30, 1935.

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