Mary Ann Patten and the Race to the Bottom of the World
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Tilar Jenon Mazzeo
Unaffiliated independent scholar
Research
and writing leading to a book about nineteenth-century American culture and Mary Ann Patten (1837-1861), who in 1856
averted a maritime disaster by successfully sailing a clipper ship around Cape
Horn to San Francisco during the California Gold Rush.
Biography of Mary Ann Patten, celebrated nineteenth-century American heroine, acclaimed for her role in averting one of the most infamous maritime near-disasters of the Californian Gold Rush period.