Download or read book History of Mariposa County California written by Stanley Katcher and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-21 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find the Mother Lode! Explore historic Mariposa County, including Yosemite National Park and a wealth of California Gold Rush history.
Download or read book The History of Mariposa County California written by Elroy Ecklar and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-10-17 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of Mariposa County, California including Yosemite Valley
Download or read book Mariposa County written by Leroy Radanovich and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the original 27 counties of California, Mariposa County, located on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada and containing more than 900,000 acres, once covered one-fifth of the state and was considered the "Mother of California Counties." First inhabited by several Native American tribes, the land that became Mariposa County saw a flood of miners and other white settlers to the area with the discovery of gold in 1849. The county produced not only $48 million in gold, but also millions in copper, lead, zinc, and chromite, among other minerals. Now home to more than 20,000 residents, as well as most of the famous Yosemite National Park, Mariposa County takes pride in the history that lives in the Gold Rush buildings lining downtown Mariposa and Coulterville's main streets and still standing in early mining towns like Hornitos and Bear Valley.
Download or read book California s Agua Fria written by Ramund Francis Wood and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agua Fria is the Spanish translation of Cold Water Creek. Situated in Mariposa County in the foothills of the Sierras, it was the original county seat of Mariposa County but no longer exists as a town.
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 Legendary Locals of Yosemite National Park and Mariposa County written by Leroy Radanovich and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1846, Thomas Larkin, American council general to the Mexican government in California, purchased a Mexican land grant, Las Mariposas, for Col. John C. Fremont. The grant consisted of 10 square leagues of grazing land located near the Merced River and west of the Sierra. In 1848, when California became the possession of the United States, the treaty called for the recognition of preexisting grants. Gold was discovered in the foothills of the Sierra that same year. Fremont floated his questionable Mexican grant into the gold discovery region. With the formation of the State of California in 1850, one of the original counties was named Mariposa, Spanish for "butterflies." Located within the county was the Fremont grant and much of the yet undiscovered Yosemite region of the Sierra. Encounters with Native Americans near the mining camps lead to the formation of the Mariposa Battalion, and a search for the natives led to the American discovery of Yosemite Valley. Thus, it was custodians and photographers such as Charles Leander Weed, Carlton E Watkins, J.J. Riley, George Fiske, Ansel Adams, and many others that interpreted and introduced Yosemite to the world.
Download or read book A Youth s History of California from the Earliest Period of Its Discovery to the Present Time written by Lucia NORMAN and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yosemite the Park and Its Resources a History of the Discovery Management and Physical Development of Yosemite National Park California Historical narrative written by Linda W. Greene and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Tuolumne County California written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mariposa County California Mines and Minerals written by California Bureau of Mines and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mining historian Kerby Jackson introduces us to a classic mining work in this important re-issue of "Register of Mines and Minerals of Mariposa County, California." Unavailable since the turn of the century, this publication offers rare insights into the famous mining areas of Mariposa County, California. Included in this small booklet are facts about numerous gold and other types of mines in Mariposa County. Included are basic facts about lode and placer mines such as their location, geology, ore characteristics, ownership details and more. This small booklet will be found to be of great value in the field for prospectors, treasure hunters, historians and explorers. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As such, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.
Download or read book History of Fresno County California written by Paul E. Vandor and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Fresno County Vol 1 written by Paul E. Vandor and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editor and publisher of these volumes, which include not less than several hundred biographies spread across the six books, presents them confidently as a verified and authoritative history of the county - the result of conscientious labor in original research , and of information imparted by pioneers and their descendants , entered upon originally as a pastime and without thought of publication of the collated material. It essays to present county and city historical data that had lasting bearing on the times, but which with many of the picturesque incidents were ignored or overlooked in the publications that have gone before; and lastly it is an endeavor also to fill in the hiatus of the years from 1882 through the first World War, to bring to date the tale of the development and growth of a county which, from a small beginning with a rough and uncouth mining population and hardy pioneers, has become one of the richest, politically best governed and industrially typical of a great state. Incredible as their development and growth have been, through successive industrial epochs, the mind cannot grasp the future of State and County, now that the twin Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys have reached the zenith of development and production. Today Fresno County is a leading contributor to California's greater riches, enhanced production, and to the unmeasured happiness and prosperity of its citizens. Fresno is one of the state's centers. A remarkable past will be eclipsed by a more wonderful future - it is manifest destiny. This is volume one out of six.
Download or read book The Call of Gold written by Newell D. Chamberlain and published by Great West Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newell D. Chamberlain was born in 1880 and spent his early years in San Francisco. In 1926 he established Camp Midpines, so named because it was "amidst the pines and midway between Merced and Yosemite." In the 1930s he compiled this chronicle of events during and after the Gold Rush -- drawing on newspapers of the time and interviews with early pioneers and their children. The result is this kaleidoscopic view of life in a dramatic era in the history of California. Illustrated with many historic photographs, some of which have not previously been published. Book jacket.
Download or read book History of Fresno County Vol 4 written by Paul E. Vandor and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editor and publisher of these volumes, which include not less than several hundred biographies spread across the six books, presents them confidently as a verified and authoritative history of the county - the result of conscientious labor in original research , and of information imparted by pioneers and their descendants , entered upon originally as a pastime and without thought of publication of the collated material. It essays to present county and city historical data that had lasting bearing on the times, but which with many of the picturesque incidents were ignored or overlooked in the publications that have gone before; and lastly it is an endeavor also to fill in the hiatus of the years from 1882 through the first World War, to bring to date the tale of the development and growth of a county which, from a small beginning with a rough and uncouth mining population and hardy pioneers, has become one of the richest, politically best governed and industrially typical of a great state. Incredible as their development and growth have been, through successive industrial epochs, the mind cannot grasp the future of State and County, now that the twin Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys have reached the zenith of development and production. Today Fresno County is a leading contributor to California's greater riches, enhanced production, and to the unmeasured happiness and prosperity of its citizens. Fresno is one of the state's centers. A remarkable past will be eclipsed by a more wonderful future - it is manifest destiny. This is volume four out of six.
Download or read book Discovery of the Yosemite and the Indian War of 1851 written by Lafayette Houghton Bunnell and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lafayette Houghton Bunnell (1824-1903) was a member of the Mariposa Battalion that became the white discoverers of the Yosemite Valley in 1851 when they rode out in search of Native American tribal leaders involved in recent raids on American settlements. Dr. Bunnell later served as a surgeon in the Civil War. Discovery of the Yosemite, and the Indian war of 1851 (originally published 1880) contains his account of that event, beginning with the history of the battalion and the tribal unrest that inspired its creation. He goes on to chronicle the unit's march from its camp near Agua Fria into the mountains down the South Fork of the Merced River. Bunnell recalls his comrades' reactions to the natural grandeur they encountered in the Yosemite Valley as well as the trivia of camp life and encounters with the native tribes they were sent to pacify. The book concludes with chapters of the Valley's history after 1851, discussions of the region's flora and fauna, and a chapter on the discovery of the sequoias and their later exploitation.
Download or read book Motor Busses New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ghost Towns Mining Camps of California written by Remi A. Nadeau and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings to life the turbulent times in the heyday of each town and guides the visitor to the sights that are relies of those times. Historic photos.
