Download or read book The Humboldt Wagon Road written by Marti Leicester and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers readers an opportunity to ride the historic Humboldt Wagon Road from Chico to Susanville through images that have been collected since the 1860s. Many never-before-published photographs and oral histories tell a story of people who established what has been called this "small corner of the West." In the 1850s, John Bidwell, a California pioneer, agriculturist, businessman, and politician, envisioned a freight and passenger route that would connect San Francisco, the Sacramento River, and his newly established community of Chico. He wanted it to cross the mountains to the gold and silver mines in Idaho and Nevada. Bidwell financed, constructed, and opened the road for horses, wagons, stagecoaches, and eventually trucks and automobiles. From the Civil War era until the present, the road has carried everything from lumber to tourists.
Download or read book The Historical Geography of the Humboldt Wagon Road written by Anita Louise Chang and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stories of the Humboldt Wagon Road written by Andy Mark and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the completion of the transcontinental railroad, there was the Chico and Humboldt Wagon Road, meant to connect California with the burgeoning mining industries of Nevada and Idaho. The ambitious plan to make Chico a major Northern California transportation hub was spearheaded by John Bidwell and began in earnest in 1864. The road opened new areas to mining and logging and provided opportunities for less scrupulous characters. Stagecoach robberies, murders and shootouts were just some of the misfortunes that occurred on the road, along with the dangers nature provided--snowstorms, perilous terrain and grizzly bears. Author Andy Mark offers a glimpse of what it was like for nineteenth-century travelers and settlers on the route of the Humboldt Wagon Road.
Download or read book The Historical Geography of the Humboldt Wagon Road written by Anita Louise Chang and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Humboldt Wagon Road written by Marti Leicester and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers readers an opportunity to ride the historic Humboldt Wagon Road from Chico to Susanville through images that have been collected since the 1860s. Many never-before-published photographs and oral histories tell a story of people who established what has been called this "small corner of the West." In the 1850s, John Bidwell, a California pioneer, agriculturist, businessman, and politician, envisioned a freight and passenger route that would connect San Francisco, the Sacramento River, and his newly established community of Chico. He wanted it to cross the mountains to the gold and silver mines in Idaho and Nevada. Bidwell financed, constructed, and opened the road for horses, wagons, stagecoaches, and eventually trucks and automobiles. From the Civil War era until the present, the road has carried everything from lumber to tourists.
Download or read book Journey Through Time written by Kathleen A. LeDuc and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stories of the Humboldt Wagon Road written by Andy Mark and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the completion of the transcontinental railroad, there was the Chico and Humboldt Wagon Road, meant to connect California with the burgeoning mining industries of Nevada and Idaho. The ambitious plan to make Chico a major Northern California transportation hub was spearheaded by John Bidwell and began in earnest in 1864. The road opened new areas to mining and logging and provided opportunities for less scrupulous characters. Stagecoach robberies, murders and shootouts were just some of the misfortunes that occurred on the road, along with the dangers nature provided--snowstorms, perilous terrain and grizzly bears. Author Andy Mark offers a glimpse of what it was like for nineteenth-century travelers and settlers on the route of the Humboldt Wagon Road.
Download or read book Pacific Wagon Roads written by United States. Department of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Resolutions of the Legislature of California in Favor of a Grant of Land to Aid in the Construction of a Wagon Road from Hidesville in Humboldt County to the Southern Boundary line of Said County and a Wagon Road from Arcata to Weaverville in Said State written by California. Legislature and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report Upon the Pacific Wagon Roads Constructed Under the Direction of the Hon Jacob Thompson Secretary of the Interior in 1857 58 59 written by United States. Pacific Wagon Road Office and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Resolutions of the Legislature of California in Favor of a Grant of Land to Aid in the Construction of a Wagon Road from Hidesville in Humboldt County to the Southern Boundary line of Said County and a Wagon Road from Arcata to Weaverville in Said State written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Lands and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ten Miles of Roadside Archaeology Along the Old Humboldt Wagon Road written by Gregory F. White and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Resolutions of the Legislature of California in Favor of a Grant of Land to Aid in the Construction of a Wagon Road from Hidesville in Humboldt County to the Southern Boundary line of Said County and a Wagon Road from Arcata to Weaverville in Said State April 6 1868 Referred to the Committee on Public Lands and Ordered to be Printed written by United States. Congress. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maps and Reports of the Fort Kearney South Pass and Honey Lake Wagon Road written by Frederick West Lander and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The California Trail written by George R. Stewart and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1841 and 1842 small groups of emigrants tried to discover a route to California passable by wagons. Without reliable maps or guides, they pushed ahead, retreated, detoured, split up, and regrouped, reaching their destination only at great cost of property and life. But they had found a trail, or cleared one, and by their mistakes had shown others how to take wagon trains across half a continent. By 1844 a great migration was in progress. Each successive party learned from those who went before where to cross rivers and mountains, when to rest, when to forge ahead, and how to find food and water. Increased experience was translated into better wagon designs, improved understanding of climate and terrain, and better-supplied and -organized caravans. George R. Stewart's California Trail describes the trail's year-by-year changes as weather conditions, new exploration, and the changing character of emigrants affected it. Successes and disasters (like the Donner party's fate) are presented in nearly personal detail. More than a history of the trail, this book tells how to travel it, what it felt like, what was feared and hoped for.
Download or read book Biennial Report of the Department of Highways written by California. Department of Highways and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wagon roads west written by William Turrentine Jackson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
