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Author : Library of Congress
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Total Pages : 712 pages
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Download or read book The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Gaer
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Total Pages : 42 pages
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Download or read book Index ... Three Years in California written by Joseph Gaer and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ernest de Massey
Publisher : San Francisco, California historical society
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
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Download or read book A Frenchman in the Gold Rush written by Ernest de Massey and published by San Francisco, California historical society. This book was released on 1927 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernest de Massey was the younger son of a well-to-do French family that sailed to America and the Gold Rush in the spring of 1849. He eventually settled in San Francisco, where he lived until his return to Europe in 1857. A Frenchman in the gold rush (1927) is a translation of de Massey's journal covering his voyage to California, gold mining on the Trinity River, 1850, and visits to San José, Santa Cruz, and San Juan Bautista; and his career as a San Francisco businessman and journalist, 1850-1851.
Author : Mary Cone
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385528003
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Two Years in California written by Mary Cone and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-24 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Author : Susie Champney Clark
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Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Round Trip from the Hub to the Golden Gate written by Susie Champney Clark and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail trip, with special attention to stops at Chicago, Pasadena, Santa Barbara, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Oakland, Sonoma County, the Lick Observatory, Santa Cruz, Monterey, Yosemite, and Salt Lake City.
Author : Lewis Adelbert Norton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Life and Adventures of Col. L.A. Norton written by Lewis Adelbert Norton and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lewis Adelbert Norton (b. 1819) grew up in Canada and western New York. Banished from Canada for taking the Patriot side in the Rebellion of 1837-1838, Norton settled in Illinois, where he raised a regiment for the Mexican War. On his return home, he led an overland party to California. Life and adventures of Col. L.A. Norton (1887) describes Norton's early life and his journey west. Of his life in California, he chronicles careers as miner, lawyer, and merchant in Placerville. In 1856 he moves to Healdsburg, where his law practice involves him in the Squatter War on the Russian River. The book closes with his account of an 1874 rail trip east, revisiting Canada, New York, and New England before returning to Healdsburg.
Author : Samuel Hopkins Willey
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Total Pages : 92 pages
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Download or read book Thirty Years in California written by Samuel Hopkins Willey and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Hopkins Willey (1821-1914), a Presbyterian seminarian in Massachusetts, sailed to California as a home missionary in December 1848. He was a chaplain of the 1849 constitutional convention and served churches in San Francisco, Monterey, Santa Cruz, and Benecia. From 1862 to 1869 he headed the College of California at Berkeley, which was turned over to the University of California. Thirty years in California (1879) contains his recollections of Presbyterian congregations in Monterey and San Francisco and the founding of the Howard Presbyterian Church in Happy Valley. He describes religious and civil affairs in San Francisco through the 1850s and his role as head of the College of California.
Author : William Henry Brewer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520027626
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (276 download)
Download or read book Up and Down California in 1860-1864 written by William Henry Brewer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journal seems to contain information for everyone regardless of one's interest...Each page of this almost six hundred page journal is crammed with facts and descriptions. So much of interest is contained in every entry that each re-reading will reveal many interesting incidents or observations not quite grasped on the first perusal....This book will be a valuable source to all students of California or United States history and to the casual readers as well.
Author : James J. Ayers
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Gold and Sunshine, Reminiscences of Early California written by James J. Ayers and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James J. Ayers left St. Louis, Missouri for California in 1849. He remained to carve out a career for himself in journalism. Gold and sunshine (1922) was completed by Ayers in retirement at Azusa in 1896 but not published until after his death. He recalls his 1849 voyage to California and brief career as a miner in Calaveras County, newspaper publishing in Mokelumne Hill (1850-1852), and San Francisco (1850s). Ayers also discusses local and national politics for all periods as well as a theatrical tour in the Gold Rush, a Civil War visit to the front and meeting with Lincoln, Nevada gold and silver mining, the California Constitutional Convention of 1878, and Sacramento in the 1880s.
Author : M. D. James Lawrence Tyson
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1429045574
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Diary of a Physician: In California, the Results of Actual Experience Including Notes of the Journey by Land and Water and Observations on T written by M. D. James Lawrence Tyson and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. James L. Tyson sailed from Baltimore for California in January 1849, crossing the Isthmus and sailing on to San Francisco. Diary of a physician in California (1850) recounts his 1849 tour of the Northern Mines in search of a likely place for his medical practice and his hospital at Cold Spring, where his patients included a number of Oregonians. Tyson closes his hospital at the end of the summer, sailing from San Francisco as a ship's physician, crossing the Isthmus and landing in the United States in December 1849. His diary pays special attention to miners' health and working conditions
Author : Edward Gould Buffum
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Six Months in the Gold Mines written by Edward Gould Buffum and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Gould Buffum (1820-1867), a New York journalist, came to California as an officer in the 7th Regiment of N.Y. Volunteers during the Mexican War. He stayed on to seek gold and edit a California newspaper before returning east to become Paris correspondent of the New York Herald. Six months in the gold mines (1850) is Buffum's vivid account of his regiment's voyage west in 1846 to help secure California for the United States. He describes his discharge from the army in Monterey and his subsequent adventures as a gold seeker, sailing up the Sacramento to reach the Sierra Nevadas above Sutter's Fort. He describes prospecting along the Bear and Yuba Rivers, Weber Creek, and Middle and South Forks of the American River, Foster's Bar, and Weaver's Creek, 1848-1849. He concludes with the story of his work for Alta California in San Francisco and the growth of San Francisco.
Author : Edwin Bryant
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book What I Saw in California written by Edwin Bryant and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1849 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Walter Colton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Three Years in California [1846-1849] written by Walter Colton and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Colton (1797-1851) of Vermont had a career as clergyman and journalist before sailing to California as naval chaplain of the Congress. In July 1846, Commodore Stockton named him alcalde of Monterey, a post to which he was elected a few months later. He remained in California until 1849, using his time to found the state's first newspaper and building its first schoolhouse. Three years in California (1850) contains Colton's memoirs of that period, including descriptions of the U.S. military occupation of California, social life and customs of Monterey, discovery of gold and firsthand impressions of the Sonora mining camp in the Southern Mines, visits to Stockton and San José, John Charles Frémont, the Constitutional Convention of 1849, and California missions.
Author : Mrs. Frank Leslie
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Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book California written by Mrs. Frank Leslie and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leslie traveled west through Chicago, Wyoming, Utah (and met Brigham Young), Nevada, and around in California.
Author : James Stephens Brown
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book California Gold written by James Stephens Brown and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Bidwell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Echoes of the Past about California written by John Bidwell and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Steele (1832-1915) traveled overland from Wisconsin to California in 1850 and remained for three years. Returning east, he taught school, served in the Union Army, and became an Episcopal minister after the Civil War. Echoes of the past about California and ... In camp and cabin (1928) reprints works by Bidwell and Steele published earlier. Bidwell's narrative was composed in 1889 and first published in 1890 in the Century Magazine. The version published here as "Echoes of the past," however, was based on a somewhat different version published in pamphlet form by the Chico, California Advertiser after Bidwell's death in 1900. This version does not include Bidwell's "Journey to California," the journal that he kept in 1841 and which was published in Missouri in 1843 or 1844 (and appears as part of his Addresses, reminiscences ..., 1906).
Author : Kimball Webster
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Gold Seekers of '49 written by Kimball Webster and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
