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Author : Harry Knill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780883881293
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (812 download)
Download or read book Early California and Her Flags written by Harry Knill and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief history of California's different flags.
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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806153709
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Testimonios written by and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-08-10 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When in the early 1870s historian Hubert Howe Bancroft sent interviewers out to gather oral histories from the pre-statehood gentry of California, he didn’t count on one thing: the women. When the men weren’t available, the interviewers collected the stories of the women of the household—sometimes almost as an afterthought. These interviews were eventually archived at the University of California, though many were all but forgotten. Testimonios presents thirteen women’s firsthand accounts from the days when California was part of Spain and Mexico. Having lived through the gold rush and seen their country change so drastically, these women understood the need to tell the full story of the people and the places that were their California.
Author : Donovan Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780942087062
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Pioneers of California written by Donovan Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William B. Secrest
Publisher : Quill Driver Books
ISBN 13 : 9781884995194
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (951 download)
Download or read book California Desperadoes written by William B. Secrest and published by Quill Driver Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early outlaws tell their own raw tales of holdups, shootouts, and desperate flights from the law. Witness the cruel confessions of California bandits during the opening days of the Gold Rush, stage robbers, and California highwaymen. These tales of harrowing and sometimes hilarious antics are accompanied by many rare photographs.
Author : Jon M. Erlandson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475750420
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Early Hunter-Gatherers of the California Coast written by Jon M. Erlandson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on detailed excavation data, the author reconstructs the paleography of the Santa Barbara coast ca. 8500 years ago, makes comparisons to other early California sites, and applies his findings to current theories of hunter-gatherers and coastal environments. With an emphasis on paleographic reconstructions, site formation processes, chronological studies, and integrated faunal analyses, the work will be of interest to a wide range of scholars working in shell middens, hunter-gatherer ecology, geoarchaeology, and coatal or aquatic adaptations.
Author : Rose Marie Beebe
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806153571
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Lands of Promise and Despair written by Rose Marie Beebe and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-08-28 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This copious collection of reminiscences, reports, letters, and documents allows readers to experience the vast and varied landscape of early California from the viewpoint of its inhabitants. What emerges is not the Spanish California depicted by casual visitors—a culture obsessed with finery, horses, and fandangos—but an ever-shifting world of aspiration and tragedy, pride and loss. Conflicts between missionaries and soldiers, Indians and settlers, friends and neighbors spill from these pages, bringing the ferment of daily life into sharp focus.
Author : Kenny Arthur Franks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780890969892
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (698 download)
Download or read book Early California Oil written by Kenny Arthur Franks and published by . This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of the importance of oil and gas in California, perhaps the discovery of gold there should be viewed as just a flash in the pan. By 1938, the cumulative value of all the gold found in the state stood at something more than two billion dollars, while the cumulative value of the oil and gas produced was more than double that sum--well over five billion dollars. The story of California oil deserves to be told, and pictures tell it best. The more than three hundred photographs in this book vividly portray the development of California's rich and colorful petroleum industry from the early exploration of the mid-nineteenth century through the boom years of the first four decades of the twentieth. Although Indians and Spanish explorers had known of and used local oil seepages for centuries and the search for commercial production had begun on several fronts in the 1850s, the actual birth date of California's oil industry may be set as 1865, with the first commercial sale of oil refined in the state (by the Stanford brothers) from a well drilled in the state (on the Matthole River in Humboldt County). The fascinating text and the impressive array of photographs here assembled reveal the variety and vigor of the development that ensued: from the "world's smallest producing lease," on Signal Hill, to the derricks sharing Huntington Beach with the bathers, to the millions of mice infesting the Taft oil field in 1926-27; from the mounted patrols keeping livestock out of the Coalinga fields to the blinking light on a fence warning motorists of a well in the middle of a Los Angeles street. First among the states in oil production in eighteen of the first thirty years of the twentieth century, California experienced a boom of immense proportions and extraordinary diversity. These illustrations, along with contemporary descriptions by many of those who worked the fields and a wealth of detail provided by the authors, graphically portray the scenes and characters of California's second great mineral rush. An epilogue takes the boom up to the present, highlighting the shift in production to the offshore leases and the controversy surrounding them.
Author : Edward K. Balls
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520000728
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Early Uses of California Plants written by Edward K. Balls and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information from many sources has been compiled here to present the most important uses of plants by early inhabitants of California, as well as methods of preparing the plants for use. The Indian method of leaching acorn meal so it could be eaten, the medicinal value of Yerba Mansa, the use of other plants for making baskets, rope, and clothing, are some of the subjects treated.
Author : Sarah Royce
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803258563
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (585 download)
Download or read book A Frontier Lady written by Sarah Royce and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since it was first published in 1932, A Frontier Lady has held a high and special place in the literature of Americas westward migration. Written in the 1880s at the request of her son, the philosopher and educator Josiah Royce, Sarah Royce's narrative of the family odyssey across the continent and of their early years in California is also the portrait of a remarkable woman. In the words of her daughter-in-law, "Wherever she was, she made civilization, even when it seemed that she had little indeed from which to make it."
Author : Glenn J. Farris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781532395031
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)
Download or read book So Far from Home written by Glenn J. Farris and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Damany M. Fisher
Publisher : Heyday Books
ISBN 13 : 9781597141451
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (414 download)
Download or read book Discovering Early California Afro-Latino Presence written by Damany M. Fisher and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it is not generally apparent from paintings and other depictions of early California, many members of the pioneering Anza expeditions and Spanish California's most prominent families were of mixed race--Hispanic, Indian, and African. At a time when slavery was still legal in the United States, these Afro-Latinos made major contributions to early California. They were landowners, soldiers, judges, governors, and patriarchs of some of the state's most influential families. They opened up trails, led rebellions, and established ranchos and pueblos that would become the basis for many of today's cities.
Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 081297753X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book California written by Kevin Starr and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2007-03-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A California classic . . . California, it should be remembered, was very much the wild west, having to wait until 1850 before it could force its way into statehood. so what tamed it? Mr. Starr’s answer is a combination of great men, great ideas and great projects.”—The Economist From the age of exploration to the age of Arnold, the Golden State’s premier historian distills the entire sweep of California’s history into one splendid volume. Kevin Starr covers it all: Spain’s conquest of the native peoples of California in the early sixteenth century and the chain of missions that helped that country exert control over the upper part of the territory; the discovery of gold in January 1848; the incredible wealth of the Big Four railroad tycoons; the devastating San Francisco earthquake of 1906; the emergence of Hollywood as the world’s entertainment capital and of Silicon Valley as the center of high-tech research and development; the role of labor, both organized and migrant, in key industries from agriculture to aerospace. In a rapid-fire epic of discovery, innovation, catastrophe, and triumph, Starr gathers together everything that is most important, most fascinating, and most revealing about our greatest state. Praise for California “[A] fast-paced and wide-ranging history . . . [Starr] accomplishes the feat with skill, grace and verve.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “Kevin Starr is one of california’s greatest historians, and California is an invaluable contribution to our state’s record and lore.”—MarIa ShrIver, journalist and former First Lady of California “A breeze to read.”—San Francisco
Author : Robert Bruegmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Benicia, Portrait of an Early California Town written by Robert Bruegmann and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph N. Newland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Impressions of California written by Joseph N. Newland and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marie E. Northrop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Spanish-Mexican Families of Early California, 1769-1850 written by Marie E. Northrop and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fern L. Henry
Publisher : Carl Mautz Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781887694520
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (945 download)
Download or read book My Checkered Life written by Fern L. Henry and published by Carl Mautz Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Checkered Life is Luzena Stanley Wilson's classic account of her family's 1849 overland journey and life in early California. Fern Henry draws upon her considerable skills as a researcher to bring to light intriguing details, following the Wilson family from their Quaker beginnings in North Carolina, to their experiences in Nevada City, Sacramento, and Vacaville. This compelling story is enriched with narratives of other gold seekers and settlers, and illustrated with rare photographs, documents, and engravings.
Author : Rose Marie Beebe
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806149663
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Junípero Serra written by Rose Marie Beebe and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-03-11 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Junípero Serra: California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary, Beebe and Senkewicz focus on Serra’s religious identity and his relations with Native peoples. They intersperse their narrative with new and accessible translations of many of Serra’s letters and sermons, which allows his voice to be heard in a more direct and engaging fashion.
