Download or read book History of California Early mining times Progress of San Francisco State growth written by Theodore Henry Hittell and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General history of California.

Download or read book Brief History of California written by Theodore Henry Hittell and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Golden State written by Marlene Smith-Baranzini and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on mining and economic development in California from the Gold Rush through the end of the 19th century. This is the second in a series of four volumes comemmorating the state's sesquicentennial.

Download or read book Discovery and early voyages written by Theodore Henry Hittell and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of the State of California and Biographical Record of the Sacramento Valley California written by James Miller Guinn and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of the State of California and Biographical Record of the Sierras written by James Miller Guinn and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of the State of California and Biographical Record of Coast Counties California written by James Miller Guinn and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mining California written by Andrew C. Isenberg and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile—rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands. Not since William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis has a historian so skillfully applied John Muir's insight—"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe"—to the telling of the history of the American West. Beautifully told, this is western environmental history at its finest.

Download or read book History of the State of California and Biographical Record of the San Joaquin Valley California written by James Miller Guinn and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Classified Catalogue written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh 1895 1902 written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh written by Pittsburgh, Pa. Carnegie Free Library of Alleghany and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Adventures of a Forty Niner written by Daniel Knower and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-08 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the early 1900 "s, this book is a wonderful historic look at the Gold Rush as seen through the author back then. Here is the beginning of the preface to Mr. Knower "s book:The discovery of gold in California, in 1848, with its other mineral resources, including the Alamada quicksilver mine at San Jos , which is an article of first necessity in working gold or silver ore; and the great silver mines of Nevada, in 1860, the Comstock lode, in which, in ten years, from five to eight hundred millions of gold and silver were taken out, a larger amount than was ever taken from one locality before, the Alamada quicksilver mine being the second most productive of any in the world, the one in Spain being the largest, said to be owned by the Rothschilds. Its effect upon the general prosperity and development of our country has been immense, almost incalculable. Before these discoveries the amount of gold in the United States was estimated at about seventy millions, now it is conceded to be seven hundred millions. The Northern Pacific coast was then almost unpopulated. California a territory three times as large as New York and Oregon and the State of Washington, all now being cultivated and containing large and populous cities, and railroads connecting them with the East. Why that country should have remained uninhabited for untold ages, where universal stillness must have prevailed as far as human activity is concerned, is one of the unfathomable mysteries of nature. It is only one hundred and twenty-five years since the Bay of San Francisco was first discovered, one of the grandest harbors in the world, being land-locked, extending thirty miles, where all the vessels of the world could anchor in safety. The early pioneers of those two years immediately after the gold was discovered.

Download or read book Classified Catalog of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh 1895 1902 In Three Volumes written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of California Early state administrations Later state administrations written by Theodore Henry Hittell and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General history of California.

Download or read book From Mission to Microchip written by Fred Glass and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no better time than now to consider the labor history of the Golden State. While other states face declining union enrollment rates and the rollback of workersÕ rights, California unions are embracing working immigrants, and voters are protecting core worker rights. WhatÕs the difference? California has held an exceptional place in the imagination of Americans and immigrants since the Gold Rush, which saw the first of many waves of working people moving to the state to find work. From Mission to Microchip unearths the hidden stories of these people throughout CaliforniaÕs history. The difficult task of the stateÕs labor movement has been to overcome perceived barriers such as race, national origin, and language to unite newcomers and natives in their shared interest. As chronicled in this comprehensive history, workers have creatively used collective bargaining, politics, strikes, and varied organizing strategies to find common ground among CaliforniaÕs diverse communities and achieve a measure of economic fairness and social justice. This is an indispensible book for students and scholars of labor history and history of the West, as well as labor activists and organizers.Ê