Comic print of a gold hunter buried under useless gear
1850
A Kelloggs and Comstock version of the Independent Gold Hunter cartoon, in which the prospector staggers under every appliance imaginable and regrets not sailing around the Horn or crossing at Chagres in Panama. The joke turned on the overland route being the harder way to reach California.
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