Note 83 — REMINISCENCES OF VILLAGE LIFE AND OF PANAMA AND CALIFORNIA. 1840-1850.

Files of New York papers for those days show the wide extent of this fever. Horace Greeley’s Tribune, then eight years old, had a standing headline “The Golden Chronicle,” continued regularly on the first page, and each time filling about two columns with accounts of companies that were being organized in cities and small villages all over the Union.