Download or read book Faxon Dean Atherton Papers written by Faxon Dean Atherton (Jr) and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises business records and correspondence documenting Atherton's mercantile relationships and activities in Boston, California, Hawaii, and Valparaiso; correspondence, deeds, and other documents relating to Atherton's real estate investments in California, including San Lorenzo Ranch in Alameda County and Valparaiso Park in San Mateo County; and legal documents and other papers concerning Atherton's estate after his death. Proclamations and correspondence in English and Spanish (1845-1848) document escalating tensions between the United States and Mexico in California in the 1840s, culminating in the Mexican War. The collection also contains Atherton's diary for the years 1836 to 1839, which he kept while he lived in California, as well as business letters and receipts created by Atherton's sons, George H.B. Atherton and Faxon D. Atherton, Jr., and letters concerning the Atherton family genealogy. Correspondents include Thomas O. Larkin, José Castro, Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, Alpheus B. Thompson, Nathan Spear, George Henry Bowen, and Alexander B. Grogan.
Download or read book Business Papers of Faxon Dean Atherton written by Faxon Dean Atherton and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business letters to George W. Gibson are primarily from A.K.P. Harmon in Boston and the Sacramento banking firm of D.O. Mills and Co. Harmon letters pertain to Gibson's business (a shoe store?), supplying goods, business in Boston, and mutual friends. D.O. Mills & Co. letters and statements relate to their management of Gibson's California business affairs in his absence and include California news, reports of gold in the Frazer river, reports of the dull business climate in Sacramento, transaction summaries, and other financial updates.
Download or read book The California Diary of Faxon Dean Atherton 1836 1839 written by Faxon Dean Atherton and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eyewitness account from a twenty-one year old Bostonite of his hide and tallow trading days in Mexican California.
Download or read book The Larkin Papers written by George Peter Hammond and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book California Diary 1836 1839 written by Faxon Dean Atherton and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Larkin Papers written by Thomas Oliver Larkin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1951 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thomas O Larkin written by Harlan Hague and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1995-03-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arriving in Mexican California in 1832, Thomas O. Larkin (1802-1858) expected to become a rich man-and he did: he became a successful merchant, financier, and land developer. Larkin also became the confidant of California officials, American consul to California, and secret agent of the president of the United States during the territory’s transition from Mexican to American control. Harlan Hague and David Langum have uncovered a large body of new information, shedding light on many aspects of Larkin’s personal life as well as on his business and diplomatic activities. Historians and general readers will welcome this full-scale biography of one of the most important men in the history of early California.
Download or read book The Larkin Papers Volume X 1854 1858 written by George P. Hammond and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Larkin Papers Volume I 1822 1842 written by George P. Hammond and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1951. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived
Download or read book The Larkin Papers Volume VIII 1848 1851 written by George P. Hammond and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Land and Law in California written by Paul Gates and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land and Law in California present essays by Paul W. Gates, a foremost authority on American public lands history.
Download or read book Grass Huts and Warehouses written by Caroline Ralston and published by University of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering study of early trade and beach communities in the Pacific Islands and first published in 1977, this book provides historians with an ambitious survey of early European-Polynesian contact, an analysis of how early trade developed along with the beachcomber community, and a detailed reconstruction of development of the early Pacific port towns. Set mainly in the first half of the 19th century, continuing in some cases for a few decades more, the book covers five ports: Kororareka (now Russell, in New Zealand), Levuka (Fiji), Apia (Samoa), Papeete (Tahiti) and Honolulu (Hawai'i). The role of beachcombers, the earliest European inhabitants, as well as the later consuls or commercial agents, and the development of plantation economies is explored. The book is a tour de force, the first detailed comparative academic study of these early precolonial trading towns and their race relations. It argues that the predominantly egalitarian towns where Islanders, beachcombers, traders, and missionaries mixed were largely harmonious, but this was undermined by later arrivals and larger populations.
Download or read book Rush for Riches written by J. S. Holliday and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the California Gold Rush from 1849 through 1884 when a court decision forced the shut down of the hydraulic mining operations, bringing decades of careless freedom to an end.
Download or read book The Larkin Papers Volume IX 1851 1853 written by George P. Hammond and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.
Download or read book Mills and Markets written by Thomas R. Cox and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mills and Markets: A History of the Pacific Coast Lumber Industry to 1900
Download or read book The Larkin Papers 1848 1851 written by Thomas Oliver Larkin and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contest for California written by Stephen G. Hyslop and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California’s early history was both colorful and turbulent. After Europeans first explored the region in the sixteenth century, it was conquered and colonized by successive waves of adventurers and settlers. In Contest for California, award-winning author Stephen G. Hyslop draws on a wide array of primary sources to weave an elegant narrative of this epic struggle for control of the territory that many saw as a beautiful, sprawling land of promise. In vivid detail, Hyslop traces the story of early California from its founding in 1769 by Spanish colonists to its annexation in 1848 by the United States. He describes the motivations and activities of colonizers and colonized alike. Using eyewitness accounts, he allows all participants—Native American, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo-American—to have their say. Soldiers, settlers, missionaries, and merchants testify to the heroic and commonplace, the colorful and tragic, in California’s pre-American history. Even as he acknowledges the dark side of this story, Hyslop avoids a simplistic perspective. Moving beyond the polarities that have marked late-twentieth-century California historiography, he offers nuanced portraits of such controversial figures as Junípero Serra and treats the Californios and their distinctive Hispanic culture with a respect lacking in earlier histories. Attentive to tensions within the invading groups—priests and the military during the Spanish era, merchants and settlers during the American era—he also never loses sight of their impact on the original inhabitants of the region: California’s Native peoples. He also recounts the journeys of colonists from Russia, England, and other countries who influenced the development of California as it passed from the hands of Spaniards and Mexicans to Americans. Exhaustively researched yet concise, this book offers a much-needed alternative history of early California and its evolution from Spanish colony to American territory.
