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Author : George Henry Tinkham
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ISBN 13 : 9783337531751
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (317 download)
Download or read book A History of Stockton from Its Organization Up to the Present Time written by George Henry Tinkham and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Henry Tinkham
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (829 download)
Download or read book A History of Stockton from Its Organization Up to the Present Time, Including a Sketch of San Joaquin County written by George Henry Tinkham and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Henry Tinkham
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of Stockton from Its Organization Up to the Present Time written by George Henry Tinkham and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sale Catalogues written by American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neil P. Chatelain
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476651523
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Treasure and Empire in the Civil War written by Neil P. Chatelain and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across North America's periphery, unknown and overlooked Civil War campaigns were waged over whether the United States or Confederacy would dominate lands, mines, and seaborne transportation networks of North America's mineral wealth. The U.S. needed this wealth to stabilize their wartime economy while the Confederacy sought to expand their own treasury. Confederate armies advanced to seize the West and its gold and silver reserves, while warships steamed to intercept Panama route ships transporting bullion from California to Panama to New York. United States forces responded by expelling Confederate incursions and solidified territorial control by combating Indigenous populations and enacting laws encouraging frontier settlement. The U.S. Navy patrolled key ports, convoyed treasure ships, and integrated continent-wide intelligence networks in the ultimate game of cat and mouse. This book examines the campaigns to control North America's mineral wealth, linking the Civil War's military, naval, political, diplomatic and economic elements. Included are the hemispheric land and sea adventures involving tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, admiral and explorer Charles Wilkes, renowned sea captain Raphael Semmes, General Henry Sibley, cowboy and mountain man Kit Carson, Indigenous leaders Mangas Coloradas and Geronimo, writer and miner Mark Twain, and Mormon leader Brigham Young.
Author : Mark Grossman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476630135
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Trunk Dripped Blood written by Mark Grossman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trunk dripping blood, discovered at a railway station in Stockton in 1906, launched one of the most famous murder investigations in California history--still debated by crime historians. In 1913, the dismembered body of a young pregnant woman, found in the East River, was traced back to her killer and husband, who remains the only priest ever executed for homicide in the U.S. In 1916, a successful dentist, recently married into a prestigious family, poisoned his in-laws--first with deadly bacteria, then with arsenic--claiming the real murderer was an Egyptian incubus who took control of his body. Drawing on court transcripts, newspaper coverage and other contemporary sources, this collection of historical American true crime stories chronicles five murder cases that became media sensations of their day, making headlines across the country in the decades before radio or television.
Author : Eilene Lyon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149307007X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Fortune's Frenzy written by Eilene Lyon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-09-08 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The road to hell is paved with good intentions…and gold dust. When Henry Jenkins’s sawmill business goes bust and his family loses their Indiana farm to foreclosure, he sees gold as the answer to his financial woes. Joining a company of younger men, Jenkins and the other prospective miners sign fraudulent promissory notes to borrow from a ruthless businessman, Allen Makepeace, to reach the gold mines. They sail the risky route via Panama to the mines in 1851. But gold is not so easy to find by then. Making enough to survive and get home will be difficult; repaying Makepeace could be impossible. As Henry Jenkins becomes mired in mining, his wife, Abby, struggles to meet the needs of her large family amidst crop failures, waves of deadly disease, and harassment by Henry’s creditors. When Henry’s sons-in-law follow in his wake, they find themselves on a notorious death ship, stranded in the vast Pacific. Will any of these frantic men make it home to their distressed families? Fortune’s Frenzy reveals the plight of miners who borrowed at extortionate rates to get to California, and explores the dangerous and deadly sea routes to the west coast that killed roughly 10 percent of those who risked the journey. Alternating between the miners’ trials and terrors, and the challenges for the wives, children, and mothers left behind, Fortune’s Frenzy delves into the country’s pressing social, economic, and nationalist issues in the pre-Civil War decades. The theme is age-old, and still relevant: desperate people falling for get-rich-quick schemes. They fail to consider the sacrifices they will have to make and the dismal odds of their success.
Author : Brent C. Dickerson
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532046979
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)
Download or read book With My Own Eyes written by Brent C. Dickerson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five lively firsthand accounts of real life in the exciting pre-Yankee era of Californias rich history are offered in this bookfour of them world premiere publications, and all of them new and complete translations. This was an era not only of political intrigues and sectional clashes but also of upheaval as new ideas and attitudes came to a conservative Californian society. Piracy, kidnapping, lust, Indian uprisings, and scenes of battle all vie for the readers attention with fascinating passages about everyday life in the missions and presidios, governmental offices, and barracks. Governors are ejected, invaders fought, revolts arise, and plots hatched. While largely centered in Southern California, these accounts also bring us north to the Bay area and south to Baja California and farther. The reader of these memoirs will enjoy an intimate experience of life as it really wasa personal view not to be found in standard textbooks. As before with the authors previous foray into California history, Narciso Botellos Annals 18331847, the original manuscripts are rendered into a spirited English translation, capturing the nuances and vigor of these adventures in a land so familiar yet so exotic.
Author : Anderson Galleries, Inc
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The West, Its History and Romance written by Anderson Galleries, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1362 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Sale written by American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County, California written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anderson Galleries, Inc
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 916 pages
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Download or read book Sale written by Anderson Galleries, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean Pfaelzer
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300271719
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book California, a Slave State written by Jean Pfaelzer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold history of slavery and resistance in California, from the Spanish missions, indentured Native American ranch hands, Indian boarding schools, Black miners, kidnapped Chinese prostitutes, and convict laborers to victims of modern trafficking “A searing survey of ‘250 years of human bondage’ in what is now the state of California. . . . Readers will be outraged.”—Publishers Weekly California owes its origins and sunny prosperity to slavery. Spanish invaders captured Indigenous people to build the chain of Catholic missions. Russian otter hunters shipped Alaska Natives—the first slaves transported into California—and launched a Pacific slave triangle to China. Plantation slaves were marched across the plains for the Gold Rush. San Quentin Prison incubated California’s carceral state. Kidnapped Chinese girls were sold in caged brothels in early San Francisco. Indian boarding schools supplied new farms and hotels with unfree child workers. By looking west to California, Jean Pfaelzer upends our understanding of slavery as a North-South struggle and reveals how the enslaved in California fought, fled, and resisted human bondage. In unyielding research and vivid interviews, Pfaelzer exposes how California gorged on slavery, an appetite that persists today in a global trade in human beings lured by promises of jobs but who instead are imprisoned in sweatshops and remote marijuana grows, or sold as nannies and sex workers. Slavery shreds California’s utopian brand, rewrites our understanding of the West, and redefines America’s uneasy paths to freedom.
Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anderson Galleries, Inc
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Western Americana written by Anderson Galleries, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ramon Frederick Adams
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486400358
Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Six-Guns and Saddle Leather written by Ramon Frederick Adams and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1998-02-25 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoritative guide to everything in print about lawmen and the lawless—from Billy the Kid to the painted ladies of frontier cow towns. Nearly 2,500 entries, taken from newspapers, court records, and more.
Author : James Miller Guinn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1694 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of the State of California and Biographical Record of the San Joaquin Valley, California written by James Miller Guinn and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
