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Author : Alonzo Phelps
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Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Biography of California's Representative Men written by Alonzo Phelps and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alonzo Phelps
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Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Biography of California's Representative Men written by Alonzo Phelps and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alonzo Phelps
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Contemporary Biography of California's Representative Men written by Alonzo Phelps and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alonzo Phelps
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Download or read book Contemporary Biography of California's Representative Men, with Contributions from Distinguished Scholars and Scientists written by Alonzo Phelps and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hubert Howe Bancroft
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Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book History of California written by Hubert Howe Bancroft and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hubert Howe Bancroft
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Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book History of California. 1884-90 written by Hubert Howe Bancroft and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hubert Howe Bancroft
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Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: Essays and miscellany written by Hubert Howe Bancroft and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hubert Howe Bancroft
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Total Pages : 850 pages
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Download or read book California: 1542-1800 written by Hubert Howe Bancroft and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Gordon Frierson, MD
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 1647790476
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (477 download)
Download or read book Guarding the Golden Gate written by J. Gordon Frierson, MD and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a major seaport, San Francisco had for decades struggled to control infectious diseases carried by passengers on ships entering the port. In 1882, a steamer from Hong Kong arrived carrying over 800 Chinese passengers, including one who had smallpox. The steamer was held in quarantine for weeks, during which time more passengers on board the ship contracted the disease. This episode convinced port authorities that better means of quarantining infected ship arrivals were necessary. Guarding the Golden Gate covers not only the creation and operation of the station, which is integral to San Francisco’s history, but also discusses the challenges of life on Angel Island—a small, exposed, and nearly waterless landmass on the north side of the Bay. The book reveals the steps taken to prevent the spread of diseases not only into the United States but also into other ports visited by ships leaving San Francisco; the political struggles over the establishment of a national quarantine station; and the day-to-day life of the immigrants and staff inhabiting the island. With the advancement of the understanding of infectious diseases and the development of treatments, the quarantine station’s activities declined in the 1930s, and the facility ultimately shuttered its doors in 1949. While Angel Island is now a California state park, it remains as a testament to an influential period in the nation’s history that offers rich insights into efforts to maintain the public’s safety during health crises.
Author : Brenda Wahler
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1540261344
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Marcus Daly's Road to Montana written by Brenda Wahler and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Making of a Copper King! Born in 1841 to tenant farmers, Marcus Daly came from rural Ireland to New York as a boy. Having learned the big city’s harsh lessons, he traveled west to the gold and silver mining camps of California, Nevada, Utah and Montana. Then, a spectacular discovery in the Anaconda mine him one of Montana’s famed Copper Kings. Yet, his early life remained shrouded in myth. Famed for his machinations in state politics and shaping Butte into the “Richest Hill on Earth,” his path from farm boy to mining king has been overlooked. For the first time, author Brenda Wahler brings his secretive and formative early years to life.
Author : Scott Martelle
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613737327
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)
Download or read book William Walker's Wars written by Scott Martelle and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshot—and illegal—forays into Mexico, Cuba, and other Central American countries in hopes of taking them over. These efforts became known as filibustering, and their goal was to seize territory to create new independent fiefdoms, which would ultimately be annexed by the still-growing United States. Most failed miserably. William Walker was the outlier. Short, slender, and soft-spoken with no military background—he trained as a doctor before becoming a lawyer and then a newspaper editor—Walker was an unlikely leader of rough-hewn men and adventurers. But in 1856 he managed to install himself as president of Nicaragua. Neighboring governments saw Walker as a risk to the region and worked together to drive him out—efforts aided, incongruously, by the United States' original tycoon, Cornelius Vanderbilt. William Walker's Wars is a story of greedy dreams and ambitions, the fate of nations and personal fortunes, and the dark side of Manifest Destiny, for among Walker's many goals was to build his own empire based on slavery. This little-remembered story from US history is a cautionary tale for all who dream of empire.
Author : Richard J. Orsi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520940865
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Sunset Limited written by Richard J. Orsi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-05-16 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only major U.S. railroad to be operated by westerners and the only railroad built from west to east, the Southern Pacific acquired a unique history and character. It also acquired a reputation, especially in California, as a railroad that people loved to hate. This magisterial history tells the full story of the Southern Pacific for the first time, shattering myths about the company that have prevailed to this day. A landmark account, Sunset Limited explores the railroad's development and influence—especially as it affected land settlement, agriculture, water policy, and the environment—and offers a new perspective on the tremendous, often surprising, role the company played in shaping the American West. Based on his unprecedented and extensive research into the company's historical archives, Richard Orsi finds that, contrary to conventional understanding, the Southern Pacific Company identified its corporate well-being with population growth and social and economic development in the railroad's hinterland. As he traces the complex and shifting intersections between corporate and public interest, Orsi documents the railroad's little-known promotion of land distribution, small-scale farming, scientific agriculture, and less wasteful environmental practices and policies—including water conservation and wilderness and recreational parklands preservation. Meticulously researched, lucidly written, and judiciously balanced, Sunset Limited opens a new window onto the American West in a crucial phase of its development and will forever change our perceptions of one of the largest and most important western corporations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author : Family Tree Editors
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440311307
Total Pages : 1532 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Family Tree Sourcebook written by Family Tree Editors and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-09-20 with total page 1532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The one book every genealogist must have! Whether you're just getting started in genealogy or you're a research veteran, The Family Tree Sourcebook provides you with the information you need to trace your roots across the United States, including: • Research summaries, tips and techniques, with maps for every U.S. state • Detailed county-level data, essential for unlocking the wealth of records hidden in the county courthouse • Websites and contact information for libraries, archives, and genealogical and historical societies • Bibliographies for each state to help you further your research You'll love having this trove of information to guide you to the family history treasures in state and county repositories. It's all at your fingertips in an easy-to-use format–and it's from the trusted experts at Family Tree Magazine!
Author : Sandra E. Bonura
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496233417
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Empire Builder written by Sandra E. Bonura and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-12 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empire Builder is the previously untold story of John D. Spreckels, the pioneer who almost singlehandedly built San Diego after creating empires in sugar, shipping, transportation, and building development up and down the coast of California and across the Pacific.
Author : David Vaught
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801897807
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book After the Gold Rush written by David Vaught and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic history of a group of families in post-gold rush California who turned to agriculture when mining failed. “It is a glorious country,” exclaimed Stephen J. Field, the future U.S. Supreme Court justice, upon arriving in California in 1849. Field’s pronouncement was more than just an expression of exuberance. For an electrifying moment, he and another 100,000 hopeful gold miners found themselves face-to-face with something commensurate to their capacity to dream. Most failed to hit pay dirt in gold. Thereafter, one illustrative group of them struggled to make a living in wheat, livestock, and fruit along Putah Creek in the lower Sacramento Valley. Like Field, they never forgot that first “glorious” moment in California when anything seemed possible. In After the Gold Rush, David Vaught examines the hard-luck miners-turned-farmers—the Pierces, Greenes, Montgomerys, Careys, and others—who refused to admit a second failure, faced flood and drought, endured monumental disputes and confusion over land policy, and struggled to come to grips with the vagaries of local, national, and world markets. Their dramatic story exposes the underside of the American dream and the haunting consequences of trying to strike it rich. “An excellent history of farming in the Sacramento Valley in the late nineteenth century.” —California History “Vaught tells a riveting story of two generations of farmers who “committed themselves not only to the market but to community life as well.” He argues that these twin commitments, born of their failures in the gold fields, were an essential part of the culture of American capitalism that emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century.” —Business History Review “Vaught set himself the goal of writing a “new” rural history of California, examining the state’s wheat farmers in their social and cultural contexts. In After the Gold Rush, he achieves his goal admirably.” —Journal of American History “An agricultural history that weaves together an unpredictable creek, a fluctuating market, and the perseverance of the American Dream.” —Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2008 Winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association
Author : Harry Clark
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520313062
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book A Venture in History written by Harry Clark and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.
Author : Anderson Galleries, Inc
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Total Pages : 802 pages
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Download or read book Sale written by Anderson Galleries, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
