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Reading Notes B Week 4

Bayard Taylor 1825-1878


  • Man of letters, poet, novelist, travel writer, author
  • 1849 journalist sent to cover the Gold Rush
  • Four and half months in California returned to New York and book was in stores by 1850

"San Francisco by Day and Night"
  • wakes to sounds of building
  • 6:30 breakfast all hammering ceases
  • 9 full flow of business
  • 2 dinner
  • "seated on the slopes of its three hills, the tents pitched among the chapparal to the very summits, it gleams like an amphitheatre of fire." (Bayard Taylor 145)
  • "the word waiter is not considered sufficiently respectful, seeing that the "waiter" may have been a lawyer or merchant's clerk a few months before.
T'tcetsa Lucy Young 1846-1944
  • Born near Alderpoint in Humboldt County 
  • Father was Alderpoint Wailaki and her mother was cousin to a Lassik chief
  • In 1930's shared her story with Edith Van Allen Murphey-friend and botanist
Lucy's Story
from Out of the Past: A True Indian Story
  • Grandpa told about dreams of "white rabbits" coming to destroy everything 
  • Ran away from soldiers with mother and sister
  • mother got sick
  • captured again, soldiers killed all the men
  • "Stood up about forty Inyan in a row with rope around neck.  "What this for?" Chief Lassik askum.  "To hang you, dirty dogs," white men tell it. "Hanging. that's dog's death," Chief Lassik say.  "We done nothing, be hung for.  Must we die, shoot us."  So they shoot.  All our men.  Then built fire with wood and brush Inyan men been cut for days, never know their own funeral fire the fix." ( T'tcetsa Lucy Young 174-175)
  • Separated from mother and sister
  • Ran away, found mother and sister but couldn't stay
  • sister and mother separated
  • reunited with mother until she died
  • " I hear people tell 'bout what Inyan do early days to white man.  Nobody ever tell it what white man do to Inyan.  That's the reason I tell it.  That's history.  That's truth.  I seen it myself." (T'tcetsa Lucy Young 179)
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