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years in California, 1846–;49 (1850), as well as another, Deck and Port, or incidents of a cruise in the United States Frigate Congress, etc. (1850). Still another volume of this period is Notes on a voyage to California together with scenes in Eldorado in 1849 (1878) by S. C. Upham. The name Eldorado enters so commonly into the literature of the Far West that we may at this point note the volume The Gilded man (1893), by A. F. Bandelier, which describes and explains the term and its origin. size of a pea, shining in the sun, it made his heart thump, for he believed it to be gold. Gold it proved to be. The great news was quick in reaching the outermost ends of the earth, calling men of all kinds, of all nationalities, pell-mell to Eldorado to pick up a fortune. Men of Cathay, men of Europe, men of the Red Indian race, all mingled on common terms in the scramble. Centuries of creeping along the fortieth parallel had at last tied together the far ends of the earth. Marshall's Own