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In 1850 a sailing vessel was wrecked on the California coast with a rich cargo of Chinese goods bound for the Gold Rush. This book uses the fate of the vessel for a dual purpose: to tell the story of the beginnings of direct commerce between China and California and to explore the potential of contextual archaeology by tracing the cargo back to its origins in China.

This is the detailed history of the clipper Frolic, a sailing ship built in New England in the 1840s specifically for the Asian opium trade: its design and construction, the voyages between Bombay and China, its personal stories of skipper, crew, and owners, its conversion to the Chinese cargo trade to Gold Rush California, and, finally, the end of the Frolic in 1850 when it wrecked on the rocks of the Mendocino coast north of San Francisco.

The colorful story of the clipper Frolic lay buried until 1984 when the author discovered Chinese porcelain at the site of a Pomo Indian village in northern California. The Frolic was built in 1844 by New England merchants to carry opium from India to China, and its history vividly depicts the political, financial, and logistical aspects of the opium trade. Steam vessels made the Frolic obsolete as an opium clipper, and it was on its way to Go...

In 1850 a sailing vessel was wrecked on the California coast with a rich cargo of Chinese goods bound for the Gold Rush. This book uses the fate of the vessel for a dual purpose: to tell the story of the beginnings of direct commerce between China and California and to explore the potential of contextual archaeology by tracing the cargo back to its origins in China.