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You didn't need a passport: a quick walking tour exploring the land-grubbing Gold Rush

Date:
Saturday, January 18, 2025
Time:
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Event Type:
Teach-In
Organizer/Author:
David Giesen
Email:
Phone:
415-948-4265
Location Details:
meet in the lobby of the American Youth Hostel
312 Mason Street
San Francisco

Up through 1882 it was relatively easy to enter California without a passport. Come along on a FREE walking tour blitzing through ten 1804-1898 stories depicting the land-grubbing mystique of California. From the czar-crossed romance of Rezanov and Concepcion to the wild gold-lust of 1849 to the Chinese railroad labor coolies to Frederick Jackson Turner's 1890 "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" thesis, this walk demands an explanation for the need for passports to inhabit planet Earth. From the delusional Emperor Norton to the clear-eyed Henry George, San Francisco has provided a rebuke to the scandalous notion of limited world citizenship. Spend an hour to join Thomas Paine in declaring, "My attachment is to all the world, and not to any particular part."
Added to the calendar on Tue, Jan 14, 2025 10:55PM
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