When Fanny Osbourne summoned from California her famous - he had already published Treasure Island - but penniless fiance, he could not fail to heed the call. The cheapest route from his Scottish home - his father wasn't funding this adventure - was by cattle-boat and trans-continental railroad. Thus it was that one of the age's most popular authors came to chronicle the great emigrant trek west.
"When Fanny Osbourne summoned from California her famous - he had already published Treasure Island - but penniless fiance, he could not fail to heed the call. The cheapest route from his Scottish home - his father wasn't funding this adventure - was by cattle-boat and trans-continental railroad. Thus it was that one of the age's most popular authors came to chronicle the great emigrant trek west."@en
"Stevenson leaves England to join his future wife in San Francisco. Fine writing about the adventure called "emigration.""@en
"In 1874, Stevenson left Edinburgh for San Francisco to join his fiancee. A shrewd and sympathetic observer, he produced the best account ever written of the passage to the New World."@en
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Authors, Scottish 19th century Travel United States.
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STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS, 1850-1894 TRAVEL UNITED STATES.
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