{"id":866,"date":"2010-01-29T12:21:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T17:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=866"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:26:13","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T15:26:13","slug":"newton-chandler-california-gold-rush-era-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/01\/29\/newton-chandler-california-gold-rush-era-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Newton Chandler California Gold Rush Era Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu\/cdm4\/document.php?CISOROOT=\/cng&amp;CISOPTR=7&amp;REC=3\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-867\" title=\"goldrush\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/01\/goldrush.jpg\" alt=\"goldrush\" width=\"200\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu\/collection.php?alias=\/cng\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cN. A. Chandler California Gold Rush Era Letters\u201d <\/a>is a great digital project available from Claremont College. Newton Chandler (1818?-1880), who arrived in San Francisco in 1855, wrote over fifty letters to his wife between 1855 and 1872. These letters provide interesting insights into the Gold Rush, including Chandler\u2019s journey to California in 1855. While he \u201chad a first rate passage\u2026[and] enjoyed it well,\u201d Chandler <a href=\"http:\/\/ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu\/u?\/cng,0\" target=\"_blank\">explained that conditions<\/a> for \u201cdeck passengers was very bad.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cN. A. Chandler California Gold Rush Era Letters\u201d is a great digital project available from Claremont College. Newton Chandler (1818?-1880), who arrived in San Francisco in 1855, wrote over fifty letters to his wife between 1855 and 1872. These letters provide interesting insights into the Gold Rush, including Chandler\u2019s journey to California in 1855. While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,172],"tags":[162],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19th-century-1840-1880","category-letters-diaries","tag-settlers-immigrants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1927,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions\/1927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}