{"date":"November 16","id":"11-16","intro":["When the glorious Western coast was only partly settled, Dana visited the Presidios. He saw frontier life at a time when Spanish splendor still gilded California."],"minutes":12,"readings":[{"author":"Richard Henry Dana, Jr.","end":168,"start":164,"volume":23,"work":"Two Years Before the Mast"}],"slug":"november-16","status":"proofread","title":"Just Before the Gold Rush","url":"/harvard-classics/november-16/","words":2355}