Things as They Are (1849), by Henry Serrell & S. Lee Perkins. Note the caption in the bottom right-hand corner: “Clear you D[amne]d Foreigner our law is the law of might.”.
Featured on PDR in the essay Comic Gold: The Easterner Goes West in Three Early American Comics
The California Gold Rush transformed the landscape and population of the United States. It also introduced a new figure into American life and the American imagination — the effete Eastern urbanite who travels to the Wild West in quest of his fortune. Alex Andriesse examines how this figure fares in three mid-nineteenth-century comic books.