Download or read book Little Known Tales in California History written by Alton Pryor and published by Stagecoach Pub. This book was released on 1997 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has 41 different chapters on California's gold rush and development history. Read about The Lost Spanish Galleon, Pegleg Smith's Lost Gold Mine, Joaquin Murrieta, and railroad titans.
Download or read book More Little Known Tales in California History written by Alton Pryor and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel the Old Plank Road, or take a trip on the old Ridge Route over the Grapevine Grade. They were once treacherous but have been replaced by modern highways, Or, you might want to look through the eyes of two visionaries who knew what California needed and went to work to do it.The second worst disaster in California was the breaking of the St. Francis Dam, killing 450 people. And, readers will learn why the California poppie was selected as the official state flower.
Download or read book Little Known Tales in Sacramento History written by Alton Pryor and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Sutter, who left Switzerland to escape debtor's prison, came to California and built a giant land monopoly. Again, he became heavily in debt and died destitute. The entire Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys were inundated for 300 miles long and 20 miles wide by the flood of 1862. The cholera epidemic killed more than 1,000 citizens, including doctors and others who were caring for the patients. The Old City Cemetery is an exciting place. As docents are quick to remind, "People are dying to get in here." The docents know their job. It's almost as though they are trying to bring the city's cemeteries back to life. We love the epitaph on one headstone that simply reads: "See ya later."
Download or read book Little Known Tales in San Francisco History written by Alton Pryor and published by Stagecoach Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco grew from a tiny burg of 1,000 persons in 1848 to its present-day population of 825,863. The city was founded in 1776 when Spain built a fort at the site of Golden Gate Park. After World War II, San Francisco became a magnet for America's counter-culture. Hippies flocked to Haight-Ashbury in 1960 and peaked out with the Summer of Love in 1967. San Francisco's China Town is the oldest and largest in North America. The city's famous cable cars carry riders up and down the steep inclines and to Fisherman's Wharf below. People watch as the fishermen bring in their daily catches each day at the piers of Fisherman's Wharf.. There's little that can't be found in San Francisco. The city's ethnic makeup is diverse. It's made up of whites, Asians, Afro-Americans, Pacific Islanders, and Hispanics. San Francisco has developed an international character that began with its founding and continues today.
Download or read book Classic Tales in California History written by Alton Pryor and published by Stagecoach Pub. This book was released on 1999 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women discovered gold in California a full year before James Marshall announced his discovery. There have been repeated attempts to split California into two or more states. Wheelbarrow Johnny was one of the gold seekers who came west searching for gold. Instead, he built wheelbarrows and then went on to become one of the nation's great automobile magnates.
Download or read book Little Known Tales in Nevada History written by Alton Pryor and published by Stagecoach Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reader should not be conned into thinking Nevada is only desert and casinos. Nevada gained its statehood because of its incredible wealth in gold and silver mines. Many mining towns in Nevada are now ghost towns but interesting pieces of Nevada's history and well worth a visit. The state's geology dates back to the Stone Age and its tales of train robberies, lynchings and Indian battles are all explored here in this book.
Download or read book Pioneers of California written by Donovan Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales from an Old Log book an Interesting Bit of unofficial California History is Dug Up from an Old Sea chest written by C. P. Philbrick and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American History By The State written by Bill O'Neill and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich history, important figures and massive events that rocked the entire continent; each of the 50 states comprising the United States has been the scene of enormous moments in history that are the subject of study all over the world. Knowing such facts and being able to recognize the details of culture, folklore and sports (among many other pieces of trivia) are gifts that very few have, even those that can boast living in certain states all of their life. In this American History by the State Box Set, we provide you with the trivia and facts surrounding three of the most emblematic states in the U.S.: Texas, New York and California: Learn how Texas earned its name, "The Lone Star State", as well as discovering more about its mysteries in The Great Book of Texas. Discover just how the beloved Statue of Liberty found its way into history and became quite possibly the most recognized city emblem in the world in our Great Book of New York. Open the floodgates of knowledge surrounding the powerful media industry in the Golden State and find out more about how it came to reach its peak in the Great Book of California! Every state has its history and every history has its facts - our goal is to provide you with everything you will need to know, and which not even your professors or parents taught you. Get it today and start learning just what makes each state across the United States unlike any other!
Download or read book Demons of the Blue written by James Albert Waddell and published by . This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demons of the Blue is a paperback 8.5" * 11" photographically illustrated book of some northern California history; With distinct listings of Native Americans' Locations, languages and cultures, of fur trappers and gold miners of the 1800s, and of short stories of general northern California history. This book has 25 chapter subjects with 6 local area photos and 2 pertinent maps for these little known stories of northern history. This book has 94 pages and 6 of my outdoor photos; word count is 45, 260.
Download or read book Surviving Through the Days written by Herbert W. Luthin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-06-26 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of treasures from the oral literature of Native California, assembled by an editor admirably sensitive to language, culture, and history, will delight scholars and general readers alike. Herbert Luthin's generous selection of stories, anecdotes, myths, reminiscences, and songs is drawn from a wide sampling of California's many Native cultures, and although a few pieces are familiar classics, most are published here for the first time, in fresh literary translations. The translators, whether professional linguists or Native scholars and storytellers, are all acknowledged experts in their respective languages, and their introductions to each selection provide welcome cultural and biographical context. Augmenting and enhancing the book are Luthin's engaging, informative essays on topics that range from California's Native languages and oral-literary traditions to critical issues in performance, translation, and the history of California literary ethnography.
Download or read book California Childhood written by Gary Soto and published by Creative Arts Book Company. This book was released on 1988 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A number of writers have contributed fiction and essays on growing up in California.
Download or read book 20 Tales of California written by Hector Lee and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family historians/genealogists who appreciate fascinating information about prior generationswill appreciate an extensive index that includes 100+ family names of the people depicted in these stories in 100+ California locations. With drama, adventure, intrigue, and humor, these 20 tales are enjoyable and educational for teenagers and adults alike. Educators and group leaders will find discussion questions for each tale, ideas for classroom research and/or field trips to story sites where students¿ imagination can recreate stories¿ exciting action. The Chart of Locations by Story helps readers identify stories¿ sites.Drawn from California folklore and local history, most of these intriguing stories are about real people and real life: a mysterious painting, devastating fire, murder, bandits, sacred mountains, romance. Essentially true and based on historical facts, some are folklore, too, as folk remembered the truth or fashioned it into local legend. Anyway, the tales are fascinating, enjoyable, and fun to research. For example, the publishers have traveled to Sawyers Bar, Paradise Flat, and Scott Valley to experience the setting of Father Florian¿s Secret and to view the mysterious painting which is now in the little Catholic church in Scott Valley. They also found the remains of the vanished town of Luffenholtz near the town of Trinidad (Last Train from Luffenholtz). Just south of Willits at the Ridgewood Ranch, they stood at a site of a Black Bart stagecoach robbery (Black Bart, Shotgun Poet). At Fort Ross on the Sonoma County Coast they viewed the area where The Russian and The Lady took place.
Download or read book Love Stories of Old California written by Mrs. Fremont Older and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typescript of a book published by Coward-McCann (New York, 1940).
Download or read book Stories to Be Told written by Marie Wren and published by Xlibris Us. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stories to be told----" is a series of vignettes Marie Wren wrote and donated to the Fillmore Herald and Sespe Sun as a weekly column under the titles Facts Fun and Fiction and Fly-By several years ago. After years of collecting oral stories from local families and also doing lots of reading and research, she put together these interesting tales---some are true and some may be fiction, but each of them is fun! Learning about the way pioneers lived and thought and acted, adds to our own lives in many ways. Story telling brings the old ways and tales to life for each of us.
Download or read book Gold Fever written by Rosalyn Schanzer and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author uses lighthearted illustrations and excerpts from letters, journals, and newspaper articles to relate the story of the California Gold Rush of 1848. Full color.
Download or read book Hellacious California written by Gary Noy and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1855 an ex-miner lamented that nineteenth-century California "can and does furnish the best bad things," including "purer liquors...finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtezans [sic]" than anywhere else in America. Lured by boons of gold and other exploitable resources, California's settler population mushroomed under Mexican and early American control, and this period of rapid transformation gave rise to a freewheeling culture best epitomized by its entertainments. Hellacious California tours the rambunctious and occasionally appalling amusements of the Golden State: gambling, gun duels, knife fights, gracious dining and gluttony, prostitution, fandangos, cigars, con artistry, and the demon drink. Historian Gary Noy unearths myriad primary sources, many of which have never before been published, to spin his true tall tales that are by turns humorous and horrifying. Whether detailing the exploits of an inebriated stallion, gambling parlors as a reinforcement and subversion of racial norms, armed skirmishes over eggs, or the ins and outs of the "Spirit Lover" scam, Noy expertly situates these stories in the context of a live-for-the-moment society characterized by audacity, bigotry, and risk. Published in collaboration with Sierra College Press.
