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J. (Joseph) Lamson
A firsthand Gold Rush-era travel memoir, this author is remembered for bringing one long, dangerous sea voyage vividly to life. His surviving work offers a plainspoken passenger's view of the journey from Maine to California around Cape Horn in 1852.
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About the author
Little biographical information about J. (Joseph) Lamson is readily available in the sources I found, but he is known as the author of Round Cape Horn: Voyage of the Passenger-Ship James W. Paige, from Maine to California in the Year 1852.
That book is a first-person account of a passage from Maine to California during the Gold Rush, following the James W. Paige around Cape Horn. Modern library and public-domain listings consistently identify Lamson with this travel narrative, which has helped preserve his name even though fuller details of his life are hard to confirm.
Because so little trustworthy background information appears in standard reference sources, the most useful way to know Lamson is through his writing itself: as an observer of shipboard life, discomfort, danger, and adventure on a historic voyage.