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Recollections Of Old Times In California
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Author :William Henry Thomes Publisher :Berkeley : Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California ISBN 13 : Total Pages :72 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Recollections of Old Times in California by : William Henry Thomes
Download or read book Recollections of Old Times in California written by William Henry Thomes and published by Berkeley : Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California. This book was released on 1974 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Henry Thomes was an adventurer, author and publisher. As a sailor on the trade ship "Admittance" for California hides, he described his first trip to California in "On Land and Sea" (1883) of Monterey, Yerba Buena (San Francisco) and the country before the American conquest. He deserted the "Admittance" and wandered California until 1846, when he signed on another ship for Boston. His second trip to California was spurred by the discovery of Gold and he participated in a mining company sailing on the "Edward Everett" for California in 1849. He stayed until 1851.
Download or read book California Childhood written by Gary Soto and published by Creative Arts Book Company. This book was released on 1988 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A number of writers have contributed fiction and essays on growing up in California.
Book Synopsis The Evolution of a State by : Noah Smithwick
Download or read book The Evolution of a State written by Noah Smithwick and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Thrown Among Strangers by : Douglas Monroy
Download or read book Thrown Among Strangers written by Douglas Monroy and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-11-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every California schoolchild's first interaction with history begins with the missions and Indians. It is the pastoralist image, of course, and it is a lasting one. Children in elementary school hear how Father Serra and the priests brought civilization to the groveling, lizard- and acorn-eating Indians of such communities as Yang-na, now Los Angeles. So edified by history, many of those children drag their parents to as many missions as they can. Then there is the other side of the missions, one that a mural decorating a savings and loan office in the San Fernando Valley first showed to me as a child. On it a kindly priest holds a large cross over a kneeling Indian. For some reason, though, the padre apparently aims not to bless the Indian but rather to bludgeon him with the emblem of Christianity. This portrait, too, clings to the memory, capturing the critical view of the missionization of California's indigenous inhabitants. I carried the two childhood images with me both when I went to libraries as I researched the missions and when I revisited several missions thirty years after those family trips. In this work I proceed neither to dubunk nor to reconcile these contrary notions of the missions and Indians but to present a new and, I hope, deeper understanding of the complex interaction of the two antithetical cultures.
Book Synopsis The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846 by : David J. Weber
Download or read book The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846 written by David J. Weber and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reinterprets borderlands history from the Mexican perspective.
Book Synopsis California Pioneer Register and Index, 1542-1848 by : Bancroft
Download or read book California Pioneer Register and Index, 1542-1848 written by Bancroft and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation of genealogical and biographical sketches is extracted from the first five volumes of Bancroft's seven-volume History of California. Consists of a complete register of pioneers, alphabetically arranged, listing all known information of importance about them.
Book Synopsis Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 by : Kevin Starr
Download or read book Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 written by Kevin Starr and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 1986-12-04 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series statement from author's Material dreams. Bibliography: p. 460-479.
Author :Library of Congress. Copyright Office Publisher :Copyright Office, Library of Congress ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1328 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1976 with total page 1328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Biographical Books, 1950-1980 by : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Download or read book Biographical Books, 1950-1980 written by R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Recollections of a Newspaperman by : Frank A. Leach
Download or read book Recollections of a Newspaperman written by Frank A. Leach and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though his career hit heights far beyond his work as a California journalist, Frank Leach always thought of himself as a newspaperman. Emigrating to the Golden State with his family as a boy, he saw it grow into an important center of business and agriculture. Along the way, he became superintendent of the U.S Mint in San Francisco. During his tenure, the devastating 1906 earthquake and subsequent fires destroyed much of the City by the Bay, leaving the nation stunned. Leach and his men saved the old San Francisco Mint building and the bullion that then backed the nation's currency. Leach's description of the earthquake and the catastrophe that followed are by a newspaperman with a front-row seat. Later moving to the nation's capitol, he met with President Teddy Roosevelt and President Taft. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
Book Synopsis Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California by :
Download or read book Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sixty Years in Southern California 1853-1913 Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark by : Harris Newmark
Download or read book Sixty Years in Southern California 1853-1913 Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark written by Harris Newmark and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 1085 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harris Newmark (1834-1916), son of a modest Prussian Jewish merchant, sailed to America in 1853 to join his older brother in Los Angeles. He made a fortune in real estate, the wholesale grocery business, and hides and wools, becoming a leader in the local Jewish community and the city at large. Sixty years in Southern California (1916) begins with his description of Los Angeles as he found it; judges and lawyers, merchants and shops, churches and other landmarks. In the chapters that follow, Newmark organizes his materials chronologically and outlines his various mercantile partnerships and traces changing patterns of social life in Los Angeles, political factions, railroad construction in southern California, crime and vigilantism, the Chinese Massacre of 1871, and real estate speculations. In a more personal vein, he chronicles Jewish family life and philantropy.
Book Synopsis California Desperadoes by : William B. Secrest
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.
Book Synopsis Last of the Old-Time Outlaws by : Karen Holliday Tanner
Download or read book Last of the Old-Time Outlaws written by Karen Holliday Tanner and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soft-spoken, cheerful, handsome, and well dressed, George West Musgrave “looked more like a senator than a cattle rustler.” Yet he was a cattle rustler as well as a bandit, robber, and killer, “guilty of more crimes than Billy the Kid was ever accused of.” In Last of the Old-Time Outlaws, Karen Holliday Tanner and John D. Tanner, Jr., recount the colorful life of Musgrave (1877-1947), enduring badman of the American Southwest. Musgrave was a charter member of the High Five/Black Jack gang, which was responsible for Arizona’s first bank hold-up, numerous post office and stagecoach robberies, and the largest Santa Fe Railroad heist in history. Following a decade-long hunt, he was captured and acquitted of killing a former Texas Ranger. After this near brush with prison or execution, he headed for South America, where he gained fame as the leading Gringo rustler. It wasn’t until the 1940s that Musgrave’s age and poor health brought an end to a criminal career that had spanned two continents and two centuries. Incorporating previously unknown facts about the career of this frontier outlaw, the Tanners thoroughly document Musgrave’s half-century of crime, from his childhood in the Texas brush country to his final days in Paraguay.
Download or read book Hutchings' California Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977: Title index by : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Download or read book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977: Title index written by R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 2258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Publications of the Historical Society of Southern California by :
Download or read book Publications of the Historical Society of Southern California written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
