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Author : David A. Comstock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780933994003
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Nevada County, California, 1880 History Index written by David A. Comstock and published by . This book was released on 1979-06-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry Laurenz Wells
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book History of Butte County, California written by Harry Laurenz Wells and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dom Lindars
Publisher : Nevada City History
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (181 download)
Download or read book The Ditches of Nevada City written by Dom Lindars and published by Nevada City History. This book was released on 2023-04-07 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the history of Nevada City, California, through the eyes of the men that built it. For its first 100 years, everything in Nevada City revolved around gold. But this is not another book about finding gold. To get gold, you needed water — to pan for it, to wash it in a sluice, to blast away a hillside with an immense water cannon, or to turn the water wheel of a quartz-ore stamp mill. This book instead asks: How did they get the water? It reveals the engineering marvels that brought water to Nevada City’s dry hills from tens of miles away. But what if all the water in every ravine, creek and valley around Nevada City was controlled by just three men? Well, for three decades, every miner, farmer or business could only buy water from the powerful South Yuba Canal Company. What would happen if you got into an argument with them? Or couldn’t afford to pay their water bill? Or even dared to compete with them? The book traces the ingenuity and hard work of the town’s miners and ditch builders, highlighting in detail the history and origins of various local neighborhoods, including Nevada City itself, Hirschman's Pond, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Deer Creek, Scotts Flat, Manzanita Diggings, Gold Flat and various mining camps along Washington Ridge. This vivid portrayal follows the area’s evolution from the chaos of thousands of miners scratching out a living in clusters of muddy tents to a genteel town with hotels, stores, banks, theaters and libraries. What began as a search to uncover a sprawling network of old ditches, turned into a collection of never-before-told stories of the gold miners, the ruthless and greedy ditch company, and the rivals that it crushed. The domineering ditch company later enabled the next generation of monopoly to provide electrical power. The story of PG&E also started in Nevada City. This, in turn, led to the now more forward-looking stewardship of the Nevada Irrigation District. The unique format of this book blends beautiful archival images with more than 35 in-depth biographies of key figures in Nevada City. This 884 page hardcover book includes over 600 photos and illustrations, including 200 historic photographs and 75 hand-crafted maps based on modern lidar technology that reveal the locations of the old mining ditches, flumes, mines and tunnels.
Author : William B. Lardner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book History of Placer and Nevada Counties California written by William B. Lardner and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Anne Davis
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467139548
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Nevada County Wine written by Mary Anne Davis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nevada County's tumultuous wine history includes several booms and busts, starting in the 1850s when gold prospectors brought the first grapevines in their saddlebags. Economic downturns, prohibition and war all tried to kill the fledgling wine industry, but it hung on thanks to gentleman farmers and members of the mining industry who supplied a thirsty clientele. Today, although the mines have gone quiet, wineries are thriving in the hills of the Gold Country, and the pioneering spirit lives on in their distinctive vintages and growing techniques. Join author Mary Anne Davis as she explores the family vineyards of the California foothills.
Author : Robert I. Slyter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Historical Notes of the Early Washington, Nevada County, California Mining District written by Robert I. Slyter and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Alan Johnson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520910982
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Founding the Far West written by David Alan Johnson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founding the Far West is an ambitious and vividly written narrative of the early years of statehood and statesmanship in three pivotal western territories. Johnson offers a model example of a new approach to history that is transforming our ideas of how America moved west, one that breaks the mold of "regional" and "frontier" histories to show why Western history is also American history. Johnson explores the conquest, immigration, and settlement of the first three states of the western region. He also investigates the building of local political customs, habits, and institutions, as well as the socioeconomic development of the region. While momentous changes marked the Far West in the later nineteenth century, distinctive local political cultures persisted. These were a legacy of the pre-Civil War conquest and settlement of the regions but no less a reflection of the struggles for political definition that took place during constitutional conventions in each of the three states. At the center of the book are the men who wrote the original constitutions of these states and shaped distinctive political cultures out of the common materials of antebellum American culture. Founding the Far West maintains a focus on the individual experience of the constitution writers—on their motives and ambitions as pioneers, their ideological intentions as authors of constitutions, and the successes and failures, after statehood, of their attempts to give meaning to the constitutions they had produced.
Author : Jack Benjamin Goldmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A History of Pioneer Jews in California, 1849-1870 written by Jack Benjamin Goldmann and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : EDWIN F. BEAN
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033142769
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (427 download)
Download or read book BEAN'S HISTORY AND DIRECTORY OF NEVADA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA written by EDWIN F. BEAN and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York Public Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Journalism, a Bibliography written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Bean's History and Directory of Nevada County, California written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leonard L. Richards
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307277577
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War written by Leonard L. Richards and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-02-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that was to come. When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, Americans of all stripes saw the potential for both wealth and power. Among the more calculating were Southern slave owners. By making California a slave state, they could increase the value of their slaves—by 50 percent at least, and maybe much more. They could also gain additional influence in Congress and expand Southern economic clout, abetted by a new transcontinental railroad that would run through the South. Yet, despite their machinations, California entered the union as a free state. Disillusioned Southerners would agitate for even more slave territory, leading to the Kansas-Nebraska Act and, ultimately, to the Civil War itself.
Author : Carleton E. Watkins
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606060058
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Carleton Watkins written by Carleton E. Watkins and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an opulently illustrated catalogue of the entire remaining mammoth photographs of Carleton Watkins (1829-1916). The work will contribute not only to a fuller understanding of this pioneering photographer but also portray the barely explored frontier in its final moments of pristine beauty.
Author : Donald B. Robertson
Publisher : Caxton Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870043857
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History written by Donald B. Robertson and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press This book includes 368 pages of maps, photographs and technical data on the history of railroading in California. There are detailed reports on dates of operation, mergers, miles of track, maximum grade, gauge and rail weight. It also includes the histories of thousands of locomotives.
Author : Jean Pfaelzer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520256941
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (569 download)
Download or read book Driven Out written by Jean Pfaelzer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sweeping and groundbreaking work presents the shocking and violent history of ethnic cleansing against Chinese Americans from the Gold Rush era to the turn of the century.
Author : William Frederick Prisk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780933994270
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (942 download)
Download or read book 1895 Pictorial History of Nevada County, California written by William Frederick Prisk and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stanislaus Vincent Henkels
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Bibliographer's Manual of American History: A-E. nos. 1-1600. 1907 written by Stanislaus Vincent Henkels and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
