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Author : California Historical Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book California Historical Society Quarterly written by California Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book California Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : California Historical Records Survey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Calendar of the Major Jacob Rink Snyder Collection of the Society of California Pioneers written by California Historical Records Survey and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brandon Fullam
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476644470
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book A Lost Colony Hoax written by Brandon Fullam and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On November 8, 1937, a tourist from California named L. E. Hammond walked onto the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, carrying a 21-pound rock he had accidentally stumbled upon in North Carolina. The barely-legible inscription on the rock appeared to be a lengthy message from Eleanor Dare, mother of Virginia Dare, and it was dated 1591. The inscription told of the trials and tribulations endured by the English colonists after their departure from Roanoke Island in 1587. The authenticity of that stone, commonly referred to as the Chowan River Dare Stone, has remained an open question since its appearance in 1937. Carefully researched and documented, this book finally provides conclusive evidence that the Chowan River Dare Stone is a clever 20th century fraud. In doing so, the book also tells the fascinating story of the Dare Stone and exposes the orchestration of the hoax and its shadowy perpetrators.
Author : Dee Brown
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453274227
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Wondrous Times on the Frontier written by Dee Brown and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively history of the nineteenth-century American West from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author: “Glorious . . . Do not miss a page.” —Rocky Mountain News Frontier life, Dee Brown writes, “was hard, unpleasant most of the time,” and “ lacking in almost all amenities or creature comforts.” And yet, tall tales were the genre of the day, and humor, both light and dark, was abundant. In this historical account, Brown examines the aspects of the frontier spirit that would come to assume so central a position in American mythology. Split into sections—“Gambling, Violence, and Merriment,” “Lawyers, Newsmen, and Other Professionals,” and “Misunderstood Minorities—it is mindful in its correction of certain stereotypes of Western life, and is a mesmerizing account of an untamed nation and its wild, resilient settlers. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
Author : Zoological Survey of India
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Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Annual Report written by Zoological Survey of India and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society
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Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Transactions written by Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 080619264X
Total Pages : 1138 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Recuerdos written by Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A generation after the U.S. conquest of California, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo set out to write the story of the land he knew so well—a history to dispel the romantic vision quickly overtaking the state’s recent past. The five-volume history he produced, published here for the first time in English translation, is the most complete account of California before the gold rush by someone who resided in California at the time. Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1807–90) grew up in Spanish California, became a leading military and political figure in Mexican California, and participated in some of the founding events of U.S. California, such as the Monterey Constitutional Convention and the first legislature. With his project, undertaken for historian and publisher Hubert Howe Bancroft, Vallejo sought to correct misrepresentations of California’s past, which dismissed as insignificant the pre–gold rush Spanish and Mexican periods—conflated into one “Mission era.” Instead, Vallejo’s history emphasized the role of the military in the Spanish colonization of California and argued that the missionaries after Junípero Serra, with their medieval ideas, had actually retarded the development of California until secularization in the early 1830s. Culture, he contended, was of intense interest to the Californio people, as was the education of children. His accounts of Indigenous peoples, while often sympathetic, were also characteristic of his time: he and other California military leaders, Vallejo maintained, had successfully subdued “hostile” Indians and established mutually beneficial relationships with others. Out of keeping with Bancroft’s American triumphalism, Vallejo’s monumental project was consigned to the archives. With their deft translation and commentary, Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz—authors of a companion volume on Vallejo’s work—have brought to light a remarkable perspective, often firsthand, on important events in early California history. Their efforts restore a critical chapter to the story of California and the American West.
Author : Ben Wynne
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807170143
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Man Who Punched Jefferson Davis written by Ben Wynne and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regarded as one of the most vocal, well-traveled, and controversial statesmen of the nineteenth century, antebellum politician Henry Stuart Foote played a central role in a vast array of pivotal events. Despite Foote’s unique mark on history, until now no comprehensive biography existed. Ben Wynne fills this gap in his examination of the life of this gifted and volatile public figure in The Man Who Punched Jefferson Davis: The Political Life of Henry S. Foote, Southern Unionist. An eyewitness to many of the historical events of his lifetime, Foote, an opinionated native Virginian, helped to raise money for the Texas Revolution, provided political counsel for the Lone Star Republic’s leadership before annexation, and published a 400-page history of the region. In 1847, Mississippi elected him to the Senate, where he promoted cooperation with the North during the Compromise of 1850. One of the South’s most outspoken Unionists, he infuriated many of his southern colleagues with his explosive temperament and unorthodox ideas that quickly established him as a political outsider. His temper sometimes led to physical altercations, including at least five duels, pulling a gun on fellow senator Thomas Hart Benton during a legislative session, and engaging in run-ins with other politicians—notably a fistfight with his worst political enemy, Jefferson Davis. He left the Senate in 1851 to run for governor of Mississippi on a pro-Union platform and defeated Davis by a small margin. Several years later, Foote moved to Nashville, was elected to the Confederate Congress after Tennessee seceded, and continued his political sparring with the Confederate president. From Foote’s failed attempt to broker an unauthorized peace agreement with the Lincoln government and his exile to Europe to the publication of his personal memoir and his appointment as director of the United States mint in New Orleans, Wynne constructs an entertaining and nuanced portrait of a singular man who constantly challenged the conventions of southern and national politics.
Author : Charles D. Perrine
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Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Earthquakes in California in 1896 and 1897 written by Charles D. Perrine and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Mack Faragher
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393242420
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles written by John Mack Faragher and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] fascinating account of the twisted threads of murder, ethnic violence and mob justice in 19th century Southern California." —Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside: A History of Murder in America, in the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles is a city founded on blood. Once a small Mexican pueblo teeming with Californios, Indians, and Americans, all armed with Bowie knives and Colt revolvers, it was among the most murderous locales in the Californian frontier. In Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles, "a vivid, disturbing portrait of early Los Angeles" (Publishers Weekly), John Mack Faragher weaves a riveting narrative of murder and mayhem, featuring a cast of colorful characters vying for their piece of the city. These include a newspaper editor advocating for lynch laws to enact a crude manner of racial justice and a mob of Latinos preparing to ransack a county jail and murder a Texan outlaw. In this "groundbreaking" (True West) look at American history, Faragher shows us how the City of Angels went from a lawless outpost to the sprawling metropolis it is today.
Author : United States. Forest Service. California Region
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Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Chapter VII. Pioneering, 1856-1870. Chapter VIII. Formative and expansion years. Chapter IX. California's watered lands, 1769-1890 written by United States. Forest Service. California Region and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 436 pages
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Download or read book PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY. VOL. X. 1864-1866. written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Campbell
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 9780879059217
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (592 download)
Download or read book Survival Skills of Native California written by Paul Campbell and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 1999 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Paul Campbell reveals the knowledge he has spent 20 years learning and reproducing from California natives. Included are sections on the basic skills of survival, the tools of gathering and food preparation, and the implements of household and personal necessity, as well as the arts of hunting and fishing. Sample topics include: shelter; greens, beans, flowers and other vegetables; meat preparation; how to make and shoot an Indian bow.--From publisher description.
Author : Rose Marie Beebe
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806192615
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo written by Rose Marie Beebe and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1807–90) grew up in Spanish California, became a leading military and political figure in Mexican California, and participated in some of the founding events of U.S. California. In 1874–75, Vallejo, working with historian and publisher Hubert Howe Bancroft, composed a five-volume history of Alta California—a monumental work that would be the most complete eyewitness account of California before the gold rush. But Bancroft shelved the work, and it has lain in the archives until its recent publication as Recuerdos: Historical and Personal Remembrances Relating to Alta California, 1769–1849, translated and edited by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz. In Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo: Life in Spanish, Mexican, and American California, Beebe and Senkewicz not only illuminate Vallejo’s life and history but also examine the broader experience of the nineteenth-century Californio community. In eight essays, the authors consider Spanish and Mexican rule in California, mission secularization, the rise of rancho culture, and the conflicts between settlers and Indigenous Californians, especially in the post-mission era. Vallejo was uniquely positioned to provide insight into early California’s foundation, and as a defender of culture and education among Mexican Californians, he also offered a rare perspective on the cultural life of the Mexican American community. In their final chapter, Beebe and Senkewicz include a significant portion of the correspondence between Vallejo and his wife, Francisca Benicia, for what it reveals about the effects of the American conquest on family and gender roles. A long-overdue in-depth look at one of the preeminent Mexican Americans in nineteenth-century California, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo also provides an unprecedented view of the Mexican American experience during that transformative era.
Author : Reg Ankrom
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476673764
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Stephen A. Douglas, Western Man written by Reg Ankrom and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-04-23 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It didn't take long for freshman Congressman Stephen A. Douglas to see the truth of Senator Thomas Hart Benton's warning: slavery attached itself to every measure that came before the U.S. Congress. Douglas wanted to expand the nation into an ocean-bound republic. Yet slavery and the violent conflicts it stirred always interfered, as it did in 1844 with his first bill to organize Nebraska. In 1848, when America acquired 550,000 square miles after the Mexican War, the fight began over whether the territory would be free or slave. Henry Clay, a slave owner who favored gradual emancipation, packaged territorial bills from Douglas's committee with four others. But Clay's "Omnibus Bill" failed. Exhausted, he left the Senate, leaving Douglas in control. Within two weeks, Douglas won passage of all eight bills, and President Millard Fillmore signed the Compromise of 1850. It was Douglas's greatest legislative achievement. This book, a sequel to the author's Stephen A. Douglas: The Political Apprenticeship, 1833-1843, fully details Douglas's early congressional career. The text chronicles how Douglas moved the issue of slavery from Congress to the ballot box.
