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 John Bidwell written by Nancy Leek and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 William Alexander Leidesdorff First Black Millionaire American Consul and California Pioneer written by Gary M. Palgon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Alexander Leidesdorff is probably one of the best-kept secrets in the pioneering of the West and the creation of the State of California. Born out of wedlock in St. Croix, Danish West Indies in 1810 to a Jewish Danish sugar planter and a black plantation worker, he went on to become the first Black millionaire when gold was found on his property shortly before he died in 1848.
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 Jessie Benton Fremont written by Marguerite Higgins and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any history of California is incomplete without the story of this dynamic woman who was one of the state's first notable pioneer figures. Along with her husband, John C. Fremont, Jessie was passionate about abolition, and together their efforts assured California's admission to the Union as a free state.
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 Ho for California written by Jean Ray Laury and published by Avery. This book was released on 1990 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of California written by Robert Glass Cleland and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume ... aims to complement the work of Dr. Charles E. Chapman, whose History of California : the Spanish period, has already been published."--Preface.
Download or read book Taming the Elephant written by John F. Burns and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final of four volumes in the 'California History Sesquicentennial Series', this text compiles original essays which treat the consequential role of post-Gold Rush California government, politics and law in the building of a dynamic state with lasting impact to the present day.
Download or read book Eternal Passage written by Elaine L. Schulte and published by Lifejourney Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 2.
Download or read book The Journey West written by Elaine L. Schulte and published by David C Cook Distribution. This book was released on 1989 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 1.
Download or read book Scharmann s Overland Journey to California written by Hermann B. Scharmann and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herman Scharmann left Germany as head of a company of gold-seekers bound for California in 1849. Scharmann's overland journey to California (1918) describes his family's journey from New York to their wagon train in Independence, Missouri, and the trip across the Plains via Fort Kearny and Fort Laramie. When his wife and daughter die shortly after reaching California, Scharmann and two sons push ahead to the gold fields at Feather River and Middle Fork, and the American River and Negro Bar. He offers a brutal picture of the exploitation of emigrant parties and of the drudgery of prospecting and of towns like Marysville, Sacramento, and San Francisco, 1849-1851.
Download or read book William Henry Knight California Pioneer written by Bertha Knight Power and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Death Valley in 49 written by William Lewis Manly and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survivor’s true account of death, despair, and heroism in Death Valley in the heat of the California Gold Rush. At the height of the California gold rush in 1849, a wagon train of men, women, children, and their animals stumbled into a 130-mile-long valley in the Mojave Desert while they were looking for a shortcut to the California coast. What ensued was an ordeal that divided the camp into remnants and struck them with hunger, thirst, and a terrible sense of being lost beyond hope—until a twenty-nine-year-old hero volunteered to cross the desert to get help. This young hero, William Lewis Manly, was one of the survivors of the tragedy, and he lived to tell the tale forty-five years later in this gripping autobiography, first published in 1894. In a time of unmarked frontiers and wilderness, Manly lived the true life of a pioneer. After being hit by gold rush fever Manly joined the fateful wagon train that would get swallowed up by the barren, arid, hostile valley with its dry and waterless terrain, unearthly surface of white salts, and overwhelming heat. Assaulted and devastated by the elements, members of the camp killed their emaciated oxen for food, ran out of water, split up, and lost and buried their own kind who perished. When Manly’s remaining band of ten came across a rare water hole, he and a companion, John Rogers, left the rest by the water and crossed the treacherous Panamint Mountains and Mojave Desert by themselves in search for rescue. In a true act of heroism against all odds, the two finally returned twenty-five days later with help, rescuing their compatriots, including four children, even when it seemed all hope was lost. Told at the end of the nineteenth century, Manly’s compelling and stirring account brings alive to modern-day readers the unimaginable hardships of America’s brave pioneers, and a chapter in Californian history that should not be forgotten.
Download or read book The Pioneer written by Bridget Tyler and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2020 LITA Excellence in Children’s and Young Adult Science Fiction Notable Book! Packed with action and unexpected twists, this addictive page-turner is perfect for fans of Illuminae and Defy the Stars! When Jo steps onto planet Tau Ceti e for the first time, she’s ready to put the past behind her and begin again. After all, as a pioneer, she has the job of helping build a new home away from Earth. But underneath the idyllic surface of their new home, there’s something very wrong. And when Jo accidentally uncovers a devastating secret that could destroy everything they’ve worked for, suddenly the future doesn’t seem so bright. With the fate of the pioneers in her hands, Jo must decide how far she’s willing to go to expose the truth—before the truth destroys them all.
Download or read book Meet John Sutter written by Jane Katirgis and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John Sutter's entrance into American history began because of a rocky situation. He fled Switzerland in search of riches, leaving behind his wife and young children, because he owed people lots of money. After bartering his way from New York to the West Coast, Sutter started a settlement in California along the Sacramento River. But the Gold Rush changed Sutter's life forever. Primary source documents and lively sidebars help tell this story of a man who made his mark on America."--Provided by publisher.
