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Not sure if you're interested in the Gold Rush but there's a pretty good book filled with primary source quotes called The Age of Gold by H.W. Brands. It gives you a good idea of Cali in the mid 1800s.
The other option was to sail to Panama, travel across land, then get another ship up the west coast to California. Before the railroad was complete, traveling by land was the slowest but cheapest option. What I find fascinating is that the gold rush influenced ship design worldwide and it's how we ended up with clipper ships like the one in the ad. They were built specifically for speed to get to California as soon as possible.
Source: The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385720882/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_VkDPBbN2TEYF8
For more on this connection, check out the book Age of Gold by HW Brands, who's a featured historian in Gold Fever.
Brands also wrote American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900, which we relied on a lot during research for Men Who Built America.