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Total Pages : 424 pages
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Download or read book Sketches of Leading and Representative Men of San Francisco written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Floyd Williams
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Total Pages : 576 pages
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Download or read book History of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851 written by Mary Floyd Williams and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520930216
Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Roughing It written by Mark Twain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-03-15 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: o Includes all 304 first-edition illustrations by True Williams, Edward F. Mullen, and others o Provides the first and only text that adheres to the author's wishes in details of wording, spelling, and punctuation, restored from original sources. o Features expert annotation, specially prepared maps, facsimile manuscript pages, and other supplementary documents o Reproduces the text and notes of the Mark Twain Project's 1993 edition, winner of the Modern Language Association Prize for a "Distinguished Scholarly Edition" Mark Twain's humorous account of his six years in Nevada, San Francisco, and the Sandwich Islands is a patchwork of personal anecdotes and tall tales, many of them told in the "vigorous new vernacular" of the West. Selling seventy five thousand copies within a year of its publication in 1872, Roughing It was greeted as a work of "wild, preposterous invention and sublime exaggeration" whose satiric humor made "pretension and false dignity ridiculous." Meticulously restored from a variety of original sources, the text is the first to adhere to the author's wishes in thousands of details of wording, spelling, and punctuation, and includes all of the 304 first-edition illustrations. With its comprehensive and illuminating notes and supplementary materials, which include detailed maps tracing Mark Twain's western travels, this Mark Twain Library Roughing It must be considered the standard edition for readers and students of Mark Twain.
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Total Pages : 424 pages
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Download or read book Bi-monthly Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : California State Library
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Total Pages : 80 pages
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Download or read book Bi-monthly Bulletin written by California State Library and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gregory Crouch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501108212
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Bonanza King written by Gregory Crouch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A monumentally researched biography of one of the nineteenth century’s wealthiest self-made Americans…Well-written and worthwhile” (The Wall Street Journal) it’s the rags-to-riches frontier tale of an Irish immigrant who outwits, outworks, and outmaneuvers thousands of rivals to take control of Nevada’s Comstock Lode. Born in 1831, John W. Mackay was a penniless Irish immigrant who came of age in New York City, went to California during the Gold Rush, and mined without much luck for eight years. When he heard of riches found on the other side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1859, Mackay abandoned his claim and walked a hundred miles to the Comstock Lode in Nevada. Over the course of the next dozen years, Mackay worked his way up from nothing, thwarting the pernicious “Bank Ring” monopoly to seize control of the most concentrated cache of precious metals ever found on earth, the legendary “Big Bonanza,” a stupendously rich body of gold and silver ore discovered 1,500 feet beneath the streets of Virginia City, the ultimate Old West boomtown. But for the ore to be worth anything it had to be found, claimed, and successfully extracted, each step requiring enormous risk and the creation of an entirely new industry. Now Gregory Crouch tells Mackay’s amazing story—how he extracted the ore from deep underground and used his vast mining fortune to crush the transatlantic telegraph monopoly of the notorious Jay Gould. “No one does a better job than Crouch when he explores the subject of mining, and no one does a better job than he when he describes the hardscrabble lives of miners” (San Francisco Chronicle). Featuring great period photographs and maps, The Bonanza King is a dazzling tour de force, a riveting history of Virginia City, Nevada, the Comstock Lode, and America itself.
Author : Jack Winsor Hansen
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781574670943
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Sibyl Sanderson Story written by Jack Winsor Hansen and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Born in 1864 in Sacramento, California, to a life of wealth and privilege, Sibyl lived in the opulent luxury of the Victorian age. In her youth, famed operetta composers Gilbert and Sullivan were guests in her father's house. She was courted by potentates, noblemen, and millionaires, including William Randolph Hearst, two Russian czars, and the Crown Prince Baudouin of Belgium. But Sibyl's short life was plagued by onstage breakdowns, unscrupulous managers, personal tragedy, and an ill-fated marriage to the handsome, hedonistic Cuban playboy Antonio Terry.".
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Total Pages : 574 pages
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Download or read book University of California Publications in History written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles J. McClain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520205146
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book In Search of Equality written by Charles J. McClain and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washburn, the California Supreme Court nullified a law imposing an onerous tax only on Chinese immigrants and aimed at discouraging Chinese immigration. An 1885 lawsuit by Joseph Tape, a Chinese parent, challenging the exclusion of Chinese children from the public schools, led to an order admitting his child. An 1890 measure attempted to remove San Francisco's Chinese residents from Chinatown and ghettoize them in a less desirable part of the city - the first attempt by an American municipality to segregate its inhabitants on the basis of race. Ten years later, after the discovery of suspected cases of bubonic plague in Chinatown, an attempt was made to force the Chinese to be inoculated with an experimental antiplague vaccine. These measures, too, were challenged by the Chinese and eventually struck down in the courts.
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Total Pages : 1248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of American Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 1248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Thomas Carter
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Total Pages : 362 pages
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Download or read book Images of an American Land written by Thomas Carter and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In thirteen well-illustrated essays, this book tells the story of the building of the American West and of the edifices that are as much a part of the history of the region as the people who built them. Organised in sequence according to central themes in the history of the West, the collection begins with two essays that describe the cultural connections between East and West during the late nineteenth century. The next two essays place American building forms in their western context, emphasising the distinctive regional qualities of the buildings and the lifeways they represent. The third pair of essays highlights the fact that in settling the West, Americans had to brush aside existing populations, often with serious ramifications for the displaced. Other essays focus on various ethnic groups and women and the exploitation of resources as a significant facet of western architectural development -- and the effect of such exploitation on the western landscape.
Author : Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801469430
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Tie That Bound Us written by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Brown was fiercely committed to the militant abolitionist cause, a crusade that culminated in Brown's raid on the Federal armory at Harpers Ferry in 1859 and his subsequent execution. Less well known is his devotion to his family, and they to him. Two of Brown’s sons were killed at Harpers Ferry, but the commitment of his wife and daughters often goes unacknowledged. In The Tie That Bound Us, Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz reveals for the first time the depth of the Brown women’s involvement in his cause and their crucial roles in preserving and transforming his legacy after his death.As detailed by Laughlin-Schultz, Brown’s second wife Mary Ann Day Brown and his daughters Ruth Brown Thompson, Annie Brown Adams, Sarah Brown, and Ellen Brown Fablinger were in many ways the most ordinary of women, contending with chronic poverty and lives that were quite typical for poor, rural nineteenth-century women. However, they also lived extraordinary lives, crossing paths with such figures as Frederick Douglass and Lydia Maria Child and embracing an abolitionist moral code that sanctioned antislavery violence in place of the more typical female world of petitioning and pamphleteering.In the aftermath of John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry, the women of his family experienced a particular kind of celebrity among abolitionists and the American public. In their roles as what daughter Annie called "relics" of Brown’s raid, they tested the limits of American memory of the Civil War, especially the war’s most radical aim: securing racial equality. Because of their longevity (Annie, the last of Brown’s daughters, died in 1926) and their position as symbols of the most radical form of abolitionist agitation, the story of the Brown women illuminates the changing nature of how Americans remembered Brown’s raid, radical antislavery, and the causes and consequences of the Civil War.
Author : California State Library
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Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Quarterly Bulletin written by California State Library and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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:
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Total Pages : 424 pages
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Download or read book California Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1388 pages
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Download or read book Commemorative Biographical Record of Prominent and Representative Men of Indianapolis and Vicinity written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
