Richard Henry Dana Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast

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Richard Henry Dana Jr.: Two Years Before the Mast
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https://doi.org/10.3735/9781935306856.book-part-029

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This document is an excerpt from Two Years Before the Mast, a memoir written by Richard Henry Dana Jr. In the 1830s, Mexico was a young republic with a lot of internal problems, such as the struggle between centralists and federalists, a growing debt, and the inability to exercise control over the country's far north in places such as California, Arizona, and Texas. Dana was an American lawyer and writer. As a young man, he abandoned his studies at Harvard and enrolled as a seaman on a ship bound for California. He published his memoirs of this trip in 1940 as the book Two Years Before the Mast.

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