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Book The Weber Era in Stockton History

Download or read book The Weber Era in Stockton History written by George Peter Hammond and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Youth of Charles M  Weber  Founder of Stockton

Download or read book The Youth of Charles M Weber Founder of Stockton written by Ilka Stoffregen Hartmann and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Golden State

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  • Author : Marlene Smith-Baranzini
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780520217706
  • Pages : 532 pages

Download or read book A Golden State written by Marlene Smith-Baranzini and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on mining and economic development in California from the Gold Rush through the end of the 19th century. This is the second in a series of four volumes comemmorating the state's sesquicentennial.

Book Stockton

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  • Author : Daniel Kasser
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9780738588889
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book Stockton written by Daniel Kasser and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its 1848 beginning, Stockton has been a geographical and symbolic epicenter for prosperity and good fortune. Beginning as a Gold Rush-era supply depot, this city became the nexus of an agricultural empire and a center for industrial innovation with international markets.

Book Stockton Memories

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  • Author : Richard Coke Wood
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1977
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Stockton Memories written by Richard Coke Wood and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the leading historians of the state of California and a photographer-collector of historical photographs of Stockton and San Joaquin County have collaborated to create this pictorial review of days past. The combined talents of Dr. R. Coke Wood and Leonard Covello have resulted in this attractive book, with its careful balance of text and photographs. The photographers (over 400 in the book) are a part of Mr. Covello's enormous collection, accumulated over a period of thirty years. Although alone they could tell the tale well, their value is expanded by the addition of Dr. Wood's text. All the subjects that are important to the people of Stockton are covered in these pages. Headings include waterways, education, law enforcement, transportation, entertainment, churches, the fire department, communications, hospitals, government, agriculture, business and commerce, sports, and buildings. Each chapter is a mini-history of the city in itself, with photographs from as long ago as 120 years and as recently as 1977--Inside flap.

Book Stockton s Golden Era

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  • Author : Alice Van Ommeren
  • Publisher : Community Heritage
  • Release : 2006-06
  • ISBN : 9781939300881
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Stockton s Golden Era written by Alice Van Ommeren and published by Community Heritage. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of Stockton, California, paired with histories of the local companies.

Book Rush for Riches

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  • Author : J. S. Holliday
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 0520214021
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book Rush for Riches written by J. S. Holliday and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the California Gold Rush from 1849 through 1884 when a court decision forced the shut down of the hydraulic mining operations, bringing decades of careless freedom to an end.

Book Calaveras Gold

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  • Author : Ronald H. Limbaugh
  • Publisher : University of Nevada Press
  • Release : 2003-10-01
  • ISBN : 087417578X
  • Pages : 429 pages

Download or read book Calaveras Gold written by Ronald H. Limbaugh and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California’s Calaveras County—made famous by Mark Twain and his celebrated Jumping Frog—is the focus of this comprehensive study of Mother Lode mining. Most histories of the California Mother Lode have focused on the mines around the American and Yuba Rivers. However, the “Southern Mines”—those centered around Calaveras County in the central Sierra—were also important in the development of California’s mineral wealth. Calaveras Gold offers a detailed and meticulously researched history of mining and its economic impact in this region from the first discoveries in the 1840s until the present. Mining in Calaveras County covered the full spectrum of technology from the earliest placer efforts through drift and hydraulic mining to advanced hard-rock industrial mining. Subsidiary industries such as agriculture, transportation, lumbering, and water supply, as well as a complex social and political structure, developed around the mines. The authors examine the roles of race, gender, and class in this frontier society; the generation and distribution of capital; and the impact of the mines on the development of political and cultural institutions. They also look at the impact of mining on the Native American population, the realities of day-to-day life in the mining camps, the development of agriculture and commerce, the occurrence of crime and violence, and the cosmopolitan nature of the population. Calaveras County mining continued well into the twentieth century, and the authors examine the ways that mining practices changed as the ores were depleted and how the communities evolved from mining camps into permanent towns with new economic foundations and directions. Mining is no longer the basis of Calaveras’s economy, but memories of the great days of the Mother Lode still attract tourists who bring a new form of wealth to the region.

Book The Martin Murphy Family Saga

Download or read book The Martin Murphy Family Saga written by Marjorie Pierce and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Murphy (1807-1884), son of Martin Murphy and Mary Foley, was born in Ireland. His family emigrated in 1820 and settled in Frampton, Quebec. He and his sister Margaret followed in 1828. He married Mary Bolger in 1831. They migrated to Missouri and later to California where they settled in Santa Clara.

Book They Saw the Elephant

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

Book Competing Voices

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  • Author : Ronald Isetti
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-08-24
  • ISBN : 9781977214843
  • Pages : 578 pages

Download or read book Competing Voices written by Ronald Isetti and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-24 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shunning boosterism, this history of Stockton California seeks to present a critical and candid account of a tent city during the Gold Rush that grew into a metropolis larger than either Pittsburgh or Cincinnati. It begins with the Yokut and Miwok tribes of the San Joaquin and moves forward to the present day, highlighting along the way the city's "golden age" during the Roaring Twenties and its unique, even crucial, roles during the Civil War, the Great War, and the Second World War. It does not ignore movers and shakers liek city manager Walter Byron Hogan, local industrialists such as Tillie Lewis, and real estate developers such as the billionaire Alex Spanos. However, it also tells the stories of ordinary citizens who did extraordinary things -- a transvestite woman who worked for a local newspaper during the Gilded Age and stowed away on a troop ship to the Philippines in 1898, a high school teacher who refused to abandon her Japanese students when they were imprisoned in 1942 at the county fairgrounds and was later honored by the Emperor of Japan, a brilliant Jewish humanities professor who inspired som many of his students, including jazz composer Dave Brubeck. Seeking to be inclusive, this history takes pains to acknowledge the contributions of Native Americans, Chinese, and Italian immigrants, Filipino/as, Japanese Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Sikhs, gays and lesbians, and women. Everyone is given a voice." -- cover, p.[4].

Book Little Manila Is in the Heart

Download or read book Little Manila Is in the Heart written by Dawn Bohulano Mabalon and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early twentieth century—not long after 1898, when the United States claimed the Philippines as an American colony—Filipinas/os became a vital part of the agricultural economy of California's fertile San Joaquin Delta. In downtown Stockton, they created Little Manila, a vibrant community of hotels, pool halls, dance halls, restaurants, grocery stores, churches, union halls, and barbershops. Little Manila was home to the largest community of Filipinas/os outside of the Philippines until the neighborhood was decimated by urban redevelopment in the 1960s. Narrating a history spanning much of the twentieth century, Dawn Bohulano Mabalon traces the growth of Stockton's Filipina/o American community, the birth and eventual destruction of Little Manila, and recent efforts to remember and preserve it. Mabalon draws on oral histories, newspapers, photographs, personal archives, and her own family's history in Stockton. She reveals how Filipina/o immigrants created a community and ethnic culture shaped by their identities as colonial subjects of the United States, their racialization in Stockton as brown people, and their collective experiences in the fields and in the Little Manila neighborhood. In the process, Mabalon places Filipinas/os at the center of the development of California agriculture and the urban West.

Book The Army Surveys of Gold Rush California

Download or read book The Army Surveys of Gold Rush California written by Gary Clayton Anderson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected and reproduced here for the first time, these journals and maps offer a new and unique perspective on California in the mid-nineteenth century. Derby’s reports and journals appear alongside those of Robert Stockton Williamson, William H. Warner, Edward O. C. Ord, Nathaniel Lyon, Henry Walton Wessells, and Erasmus Darwin Keyes. These documents offer extraordinary firsthand views of the environment, natural resources, geography, and early settlement, as well as the effects of disease on Native and white populations.

Book Stockton  Heart of the Valley

Download or read book Stockton Heart of the Valley written by Charles Clerc and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indians of California

Download or read book Indians of California written by James J. Rawls and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes changing white views of native California Indians as Spanish victims, useful laborers, and, finally, obstacles to white expansion

Book The Pacific Historian

Download or read book The Pacific Historian written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliographic Guide to North American History

Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to North American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: