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Heute gibt es wieder einmal einen Blog-Eintrag aus dem California Birthday Book, dessen Untertitel lautet:  “Prose and Poetical Selections from the Writings of Living California Authors with a Brief Biographical Sketch of each”. Herausgegeben wurde dieses Buch im Jahr 1909 von George Wharton James (1858–1923), einer flamboyanten, umstrittenen Persönlichkeit.

JANUARY 29.
Westward the Star of Empire! Come West, young men! Westward ho! to all of you who want an opportunity to do something and to be something. Here is the place in the great Southwest, in the great Northwest, in all the great West, where you can find an opportunity ready to your hand. We are only 3,000,000 now. There is room here for 30,000,000. Where each one of us is now finding an opportunity to do something and be something there is plenty of room for ten more of you to come and join us.
George Ward Burton, in Burton’s Book on California.