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Pearl Divers

From Six Months in the Gold Mines: from a Journal of Three Years' Residence in Upper and Lower California. 1847-8-9, 1850. Read Online Download PDF

Reader: Kevin Hearle

"Rugged mountains that taper off as they run southward dominate the terrain of Mexico's Baja California peninsula." This true-color image of the region was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite on November 11, 2002. NASA, Visible Earth. Larger.

Baja California did not become a part of the United States, as did her northern neighbor, but that didn't prevent some observers from wishing that were so, including a former officer of the 7th Regiment of New York serving during the war with Mexico.

Edward Gould Buffum was so taken with Baja California, that even after his brief sojourn as a forty-niner, he recalled with pleasure his experiences in the region, including a night spent with pearl divers on the waters off San Lorenzo.

Edward Gould Buffum's vivid account of his stay in California was published in 1850. After working on the Alta California newpaper, Buffum returned east and became the Paris correspondent of the New York Herald.