Download or read book The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851 52 written by Dame Shirley and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educated in Amherst, Massachusetts, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (1819-1906) accompanied her physician-husband to California in 1849. The couple first lived in mining camps where Dr. Clappe practiced medicine and then moved to San Francisco, where Mrs. Clappe taught in the public schools for more than twenty years. The Shirley letters (1922) is the book edition of a series of letters written by Mrs. Clappe to her sister in 1851 and 1852. They were first published under the pseudonym of "Dame Shirley" in the Pioneer magazine, 1854-55. In these letters Louise Clappe writes of life in San Francisco and the Feather River mining communities of Rich Bar and Indian Bar. She focuses on the experiences of women and children, the perils of miners' work, crime and punishment, and relations with native Hispanic residents and Native Americans. Bret Harte is said to have based two of his stories on the "Shirley" letters.
Download or read book The Shirley Letters from the California Mines 1851 1852 written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shirley Letters from the California Mines 1851 1852 written by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe and published by Heyday. This book was released on 1998 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneer woman describes life near a northern California mining camp during the fabled "gold rush."
Download or read book The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851 52 written by Louise Clappe and published by Wyatt North Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shirley Letters were written between September 1851 and November 1852, by Louise Clappe under the pen name Dame Shirley. These letters, addressed to her sister Molly back east, describe how California mining life was like during the Gold Rush.
Download or read book The Shirley Letters from the California Mines 1851 1852 written by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-three letters written by the author to her sister, Mary Jane, in Massachusetts, under the pseud., Dame Shirley.
Download or read book The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851 52 written by Dame Shirley and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educated in Amherst, Massachusetts, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (1819-1906) accompanied her physician-husband to California in 1849. The couple first lived in mining camps where Dr. Clappe practiced medicine and then moved to San Francisco, where Mrs. Clappe taught in the public schools for more than twenty years. The Shirley letters (1922) is the book edition of a series of letters written by Mrs. Clappe to her sister in 1851 and 1852. They were first published under the pseudonym of "Dame Shirley" in the Pioneer magazine, 1854-55. In these letters Louise Clappe writes of life in San Francisco and the Feather River mining communities of Rich Bar and Indian Bar. She focuses on the experiences of women and children, the perils of miners' work, crime and punishment, and relations with native Hispanic residents and Native Americans. Bret Harte is said to have based two of his stories on the "Shirley" letters.
Download or read book The Shirley Letters written by Dame Shirley and published by Gibbs Smith Publishers. This book was released on 1970 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published serially in The Pioneer magazine during 1854 and 1855.
Download or read book The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851 52 written by Dame Shirley and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shirley Letters, written in the pioneer days of 1851 and 1852, were hailed throughout the country as the first-born of California literature. Mrs. Clappe, their author, was the one woman who depicted that era of romantic life, dipping her pen into a rich personal experience, and writing with a clarity and beauty born of an alert comprehensive mind and a rare sense of refinement and character. The Letters had been written to a loved sister in the East. The Shirley Letters, once published, brought the new West to the wondering East, and showed to those who had not made the venture, the courage, the fervor, the beauty, the great-heartedness, that made up life in the new El Dorado. Shirley's sympathetic Interpretation of their tumultuous experience cheered the Argonauts by throwing before their eyes the drama in which they were unconsciously the swash-buckling, the tragic, or the romantic actors, and helped to crystallize the growing love for the new land, which love turned fortune and adventure seekers into home-makers and empire-builders.
Download or read book The Shirley Letters written by Dame Shirley and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shirley Letters From California Mines in 1851 52 Being a Series Of Twenty Three Letters From Dame Shirley Mtrs Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe written by Shirley and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Shirley Letters From California Mines in 1851 52 written by Thomas C. Russel and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Shirley Letters From California Mines in 1851-52: Being a Series of Twenty-Three Letters From Dame Shirley (Mrs. Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe) To Her Sister in Massachusetts and Now Reprinted From the Pioneer Magazine of 1854-55, With Synopses of the Letters, a Foreword, and Many Typographical and Ot California, by Dr. Josiah Royce, in the handsome as well as handy I American Commonwealths series, is, commonly regarded as the best short history of California ever written, and particularly so as to the early mining era. Dr. Royce I knew his state, and a more competent writer could hardly have been selected. Reviewing, in his history, almost everything accessible, worthy of consideration, in connection with mining-camps, it is noteworthy that the Doctor has much to say concerning the Shirley Letters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book They Saw the Elephant written by JoAnn Levy and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-07-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The phrase ’seeing the elephant’ symbolized for ’49 gold rushers the exotic, the mythical, the once-in-a-lifetime adventure, unequaled anywhere else but in the journey to the promised land of fortune: California. Most western myths . . . generally depict an exclusively male gold rush. Levy’s book debunks that myth. Here a variety of women travel, work, and write their way across the pages of western migrant history."-Choice "One of the best and most comprehensive accounts of gold rush life to date"ˆ–San Francisco Chronicle
Download or read book Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851 52 written by Russel Thomas C. and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shirley Letters from California Mines In 1851 52 written by Amelia Knapp Smith Louise Clappe and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World Rushed In written by J. S. Holliday and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, “It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush.” Twenty years later, no one has emerged to contradict that judgment, and the book has gained recognition as a classic. As the San Francisco Examiner noted, “It is not often that a work of history can be said to supplant every book on the same subject that has gone before it.” Through the diary and letters of William Swain--augmented by interpolations from more than five hundred other gold seekers and by letters sent to Swain from his wife and brother back home--the complete cycle of the gold rush is recreated: the overland migration of over thirty thousand men, the struggle to “strike it rich” in the mining camps of the Sierra Nevadas, and the return home through the jungles of the Isthmus of Panama. In a new preface, the author reappraises our continuing fascination with the “gold rush experience” as a defining epoch in western--indeed, American--history.
Download or read book The Diary of a Forty niner written by Chauncey L. Canfield and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chauncey de Leon Canfield (1843-1909) first published "The diary of a forty-niner" in 1906, and 1,200 of the 2,000 copies in that edition were burned. Joseph Gaer's Bibliography of California literature describes this book as written in the form of a diary, but fictional. The diary of a forty-niner (1920) reprints Canfield's 1906 publication. It purports to be the diary of Alfred T. Jackson, of Litchfield County, Connecticut, during his days as a gold prospector, 1850-1852. Jackson offers first-hand accounts of Nevada City and neighboring Rock Creek; descriptions of Grass Valley, North and South Yuba Valleys, and the Sierra Mountains; details of gold mining with accounts of pioneer overland crossings, and foreign mineworkers (including Chinese). Entries concerning Jackson's personal life include details of his courtship of a French woman in the camps.
Download or read book Roaring Camp written by Susan Lee Johnson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical insight is the alchemy that transforms the familiar story of the Gold Rush into something sparkling and new. The world of the Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film--of unshaven men named Stumpy and Kentuck raising hell and panning for gold--is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode. She finds a dynamic social world in which the conventions of identity--ethnic, national, and sexual--were reshaped in surprising ways. She gives us the all-male households of the diggings, the mines where the men worked, and the fandango houses where they played. With a keen eye for character and story, Johnson restores the particular social world that issued in the Gold Rush myths we still cherish.
