Annals of work: The hide trade on the California coast, 1835
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Richard Henry Dana caught measles during his junior year at Harvard, and the illness affected his eyes. Doctors prescribed a break from study, indeed from reading of any kind. To avoid temptation, Dana signed on with the merchant ship Pilgrim, which left Boston in the summer of 1834, bound for the coast of California, then part of Mexico. The chief export of California was cowhides, and Dana found himself loading the processed skins by the hundreds onto the ship.
Annals of work: The hide trade on the California coast, 1835
Annals of work: The hide trade on the…
Annals of work: The hide trade on the California coast, 1835
Richard Henry Dana caught measles during his junior year at Harvard, and the illness affected his eyes. Doctors prescribed a break from study, indeed from reading of any kind. To avoid temptation, Dana signed on with the merchant ship Pilgrim, which left Boston in the summer of 1834, bound for the coast of California, then part of Mexico. The chief export of California was cowhides, and Dana found himself loading the processed skins by the hundreds onto the ship.