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Jack & Praiseworthy travel to San Francisco on a paddlewheel ship, a boat very different from what we are familiar with today. Below is a picture of a standard paddlewheel, similar to the //Lady Wilma//.

Jack and Praiseworthy made the trip from Boston to San Francisco by traveling around the tip of South America. This was not the only way to get there from the East. Some gold seekers took a boat to Panama. Once there,they had to travel first by steamboat, then bongo (a native raft) and finally on a mule in order to get to the Pacific side of the Isthmus. Upon arrival, it often took two weeks to get on another ship that would then take them the rest of the way to California. Others took the overland route, traveling by covered wagon or horse cart across the mountains and deserts of the West. Each way held adventures as well as dangers.

Rio de Janeiro Strait of Magellan San Francisco

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