Download or read book Recollections of Old Times in California written by William Henry Thomes and published by Berkeley : Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California. This book was released on 1974 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Henry Thomes was an adventurer, author and publisher. As a sailor on the trade ship "Admittance" for California hides, he described his first trip to California in "On Land and Sea" (1883) of Monterey, Yerba Buena (San Francisco) and the country before the American conquest. He deserted the "Admittance" and wandered California until 1846, when he signed on another ship for Boston. His second trip to California was spurred by the discovery of Gold and he participated in a mining company sailing on the "Edward Everett" for California in 1849. He stayed until 1851.
Download or read book Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer written by Peter Hardeman Burnett and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer by Peter Hardeman Burnett, first published in 1880, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Download or read book The Evolution of a State written by Noah Smithwick and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thrown Among Strangers written by Douglas Monroy and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-11-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every California schoolchild's first interaction with history begins with the missions and Indians. It is the pastoralist image, of course, and it is a lasting one. Children in elementary school hear how Father Serra and the priests brought civilization to the groveling, lizard- and acorn-eating Indians of such communities as Yang-na, now Los Angeles. So edified by history, many of those children drag their parents to as many missions as they can. Then there is the other side of the missions, one that a mural decorating a savings and loan office in the San Fernando Valley first showed to me as a child. On it a kindly priest holds a large cross over a kneeling Indian. For some reason, though, the padre apparently aims not to bless the Indian but rather to bludgeon him with the emblem of Christianity. This portrait, too, clings to the memory, capturing the critical view of the missionization of California's indigenous inhabitants. I carried the two childhood images with me both when I went to libraries as I researched the missions and when I revisited several missions thirty years after those family trips. In this work I proceed neither to dubunk nor to reconcile these contrary notions of the missions and Indians but to present a new and, I hope, deeper understanding of the complex interaction of the two antithetical cultures.
Download or read book The Mexican Frontier 1821 1846 written by David J. Weber and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reinterprets borderlands history from the Mexican perspective.
Download or read book California Pioneer Register and Index 1542 1848 written by Bancroft and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation of genealogical and biographical sketches is extracted from the first five volumes of Bancroft's seven-volume History of California. Consists of a complete register of pioneers, alphabetically arranged, listing all known information of importance about them.
Download or read book Americans and the California Dream 1850 1915 written by Kevin Starr and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 1986-12-04 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series statement from author's Material dreams. Bibliography: p. 460-479.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1976 with total page 1328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Frontier Lady written by Sarah Royce and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since it was first published in 1932, A Frontier Lady has held a high and special place in the literature of Americas westward migration. Written in the 1880s at the request of her son, the philosopher and educator Josiah Royce, Sarah Royce's narrative of the family odyssey across the continent and of their early years in California is also the portrait of a remarkable woman. In the words of her daughter-in-law, "Wherever she was, she made civilization, even when it seemed that she had little indeed from which to make it."
Download or read book Recollections of a Newspaperman written by Frank A. Leach and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though his career hit heights far beyond his work as a California journalist, Frank Leach always thought of himself as a newspaperman. Emigrating to the Golden State with his family as a boy, he saw it grow into an important center of business and agriculture. Along the way, he became superintendent of the U.S Mint in San Francisco. During his tenure, the devastating 1906 earthquake and subsequent fires destroyed much of the City by the Bay, leaving the nation stunned. Leach and his men saved the old San Francisco Mint building and the bullion that then backed the nation's currency. Leach's description of the earthquake and the catastrophe that followed are by a newspaperman with a front-row seat. Later moving to the nation's capitol, he met with President Teddy Roosevelt and President Taft. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
Download or read book Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sixty Years in Southern California 1853 1913 Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark written by Harris Newmark and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 1085 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harris Newmark (1834-1916), son of a modest Prussian Jewish merchant, sailed to America in 1853 to join his older brother in Los Angeles. He made a fortune in real estate, the wholesale grocery business, and hides and wools, becoming a leader in the local Jewish community and the city at large. Sixty years in Southern California (1916) begins with his description of Los Angeles as he found it; judges and lawyers, merchants and shops, churches and other landmarks. In the chapters that follow, Newmark organizes his materials chronologically and outlines his various mercantile partnerships and traces changing patterns of social life in Los Angeles, political factions, railroad construction in southern California, crime and vigilantism, the Chinese Massacre of 1871, and real estate speculations. In a more personal vein, he chronicles Jewish family life and philantropy.
Download or read book California Desperadoes written by William B. Secrest and published by Quill Driver Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early outlaws tell their own raw tales of holdups, shootouts, and desperate flights from the law. Witness the cruel confessions of California bandits during the opening days of the Gold Rush, stage robbers, and California highwaymen. These tales of harrowing and sometimes hilarious antics are accompanied by many rare photographs.
Download or read book Publications of the Historical Society of Southern California written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book At Reagan s Side written by Stephen F. Knott and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knott and Chidester show readers the life of the "Great Communicator" through the eyes of both famous and lesser-known administration insiders like James Baker, George Shultz, Edwin Meese, Peter Hannaford, and Caspar Weinberger. They provide thoughtful readers with a deeper understanding of Ronald Reagan and the times in which he lived."--Jacket.
Download or read book Last of the Old Time Outlaws written by Karen Holliday Tanner and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soft-spoken, cheerful, handsome, and well dressed, George West Musgrave “looked more like a senator than a cattle rustler.” Yet he was a cattle rustler as well as a bandit, robber, and killer, “guilty of more crimes than Billy the Kid was ever accused of.” In Last of the Old-Time Outlaws, Karen Holliday Tanner and John D. Tanner, Jr., recount the colorful life of Musgrave (1877-1947), enduring badman of the American Southwest. Musgrave was a charter member of the High Five/Black Jack gang, which was responsible for Arizona’s first bank hold-up, numerous post office and stagecoach robberies, and the largest Santa Fe Railroad heist in history. Following a decade-long hunt, he was captured and acquitted of killing a former Texas Ranger. After this near brush with prison or execution, he headed for South America, where he gained fame as the leading Gringo rustler. It wasn’t until the 1940s that Musgrave’s age and poor health brought an end to a criminal career that had spanned two continents and two centuries. Incorporating previously unknown facts about the career of this frontier outlaw, the Tanners thoroughly document Musgrave’s half-century of crime, from his childhood in the Texas brush country to his final days in Paraguay.
