Download or read book John Bidwell s Trip to California 1841 written by John Bidwell and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book John Bidwell and California written by John Bidwell and published by Arthur H. Clark Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A journey to California 1841 the first the first emigrant party to California by wagon train the journal of John Bidwell Intro by Francis P Farquhar written by John Bidwell and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Journey to California with Observations about the Country Climate and the Route to this Country by John Bidwell written by John Bidwell and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Addresses Reminiscences Etc of General John Bidwell written by John Bidwell and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Bidwell (1819-1900) was born in Chautaugua County, New York, and lived in Ohio when he decided to seek his fortune in California in 1841 and journeyed west as part of the first emigrant train going overland from Missouri to California. There he found work at Fort Sutter. He sided with governor Micheltorena in the 1844 revolt but aided the Bear Flag rebels in 1846. After serving with Frm̌ont, he returned to Fort Sutter. Among the first to find gold on Feather River, Bidwell used his earnings to secure a grant north of Sacramento in 1849, and he spent the rest of his life as a farmer at "Rancho Chico," becoming a leader of the state's agricultural interests. A Democrat and Unionist during the Civil War, Bidwell served in the U.S. House, 1864-66, and was the Prohibition Party's candidate for governor (1890) and President (1892). Throughout his life in California, he was a friend to Native American tribes. Addresses, reminiscences...(1906) includes a biographical sketch of Bidwell as well as Bidwell's own reminiscences and political speeches. The Bidwell first-person narrative interspersed through this volume is based on the text that first appeared serially in the Century Magazine in 1890. The first section of the memoir, journal entries for May 8-November 6, 1891, together with a summary of Bidwell's activities in the following months and a meteorological register for November 1841-April 1842, was published by a friend in Missouri some time in 1843 or 1844. ("A Journey to California" pp. [66-98]). Subsequent portions of the memoir were composed by Bidwell much later, probably in the late 1880s. Bidwell's memoirs focus on his overland journey to California and life in his new home state before the discovery of gold. He offers details of Johann Sutter and his colony, the Frm̌ont expedition, Native Americans, California politics under Mexico, and early discoveries of gold. The Bidwell speeches published here include several papers delivered before local agricultural societies and political addresses delivered by Bidwell as a candidate.

Download or read book A Visit to California in 1841 written by Joseph Ballinger Chiles and published by [Berkeley, Calif.] : Friends of the Bancroft Library. This book was released on 1970 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Ballinger Chiles was one of the more colorful of the early California pioneers. He was an assiduous fiddle-player, a lover of jokes and joking, and a hunter of grizzlies. Born in Kentucky, Chiles served as a colonel in the U.S. Army during the Seminole Wars, before eventually immigrating to Alta California, where he became a Mexican citizen and acquired multiple rancho grants in the Napa Valley and Sacramento Valley. He settled into life in the Napa Valley, becoming a ranchero and entrepreneur, running a ferry to Sacremento, and operating a grist mill. He was friends with many prominent Californian settlers such as George Yount, James Clyman, Billy Baldridge, John Charles Fremont and Jerome C. Davis for whom the city of Davis was named.

Download or read book The Bidwell Bartleson Party written by Doyce Blackman Nunis and published by Western Tanager. This book was released on 1991 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Party and their guide left the California-bound settlers. Thirty-four undaunted adventurers persisted, often without water, between the bleak salt flats and the trackless mountains, pushing late in the season into the Sierras. They survived on the last of their pack animals and even a coyote for food. The party, including Nancy Kelsey, the first white woman to cross the Sierra Nevada mountains, straggled into the San Joaquin Valley on October 30, after six arduous months.

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Download or read book Reminiscences of California written by John Bidwell and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of magazine articles by and about John Bidwell and early California.

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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).

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