Author: Aaron Augustus SargentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nevada County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
150 Years Ago, A Sketch of Nevada County
Author: Aaron Augustus SargentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nevada County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
My Checkered Life
Author: Fern L. HenryPublisher: Carl Mautz Publishing
ISBN: 9781887694520
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
My Checkered Life is Luzena Stanley Wilson's classic account of her family's 1849 overland journey and life in early California. Fern Henry draws upon her considerable skills as a researcher to bring to light intriguing details, following the Wilson family from their Quaker beginnings in North Carolina, to their experiences in Nevada City, Sacramento, and Vacaville. This compelling story is enriched with narratives of other gold seekers and settlers, and illustrated with rare photographs, documents, and engravings.
Gold Mountain Turned to Dust
Author: John R. WunderPublisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826359388
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This legal history of the Chinese experience in the American West, based on the authorâ (TM)s lifetime of research in legal sources all over the Westâ "from California to Montana to New Mexicoâ "serves as a basic account of the legal treatment of Chinese immigrants in the West.
Bean's History and Directory of Nevada County, California
Author: Historical Sketch of the State Normal School at San José, California
Author: San Jose State CollegePublisher:
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Category : California. San Jose state college, San José
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Early history of the state normal school or teachers' college. It was established in San Francisco in 1862. In 1871, the San Josâe normal school was established.
Rooted in Barbarous Soil
Author: Kevin StarrPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520224965
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The third in a four-volume series commemorating California's sesquicentennial, this volume brings together the best of the new scholarship on the social and cultural history of the Gold Rush, written in an accessible style and generously illustrated with with black and white and color photographs.
A Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California
Author: Henry D. BarrowsPublisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
The Ditches of Nevada City
Author: Dom LindarsPublisher: Nevada City History
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
This book tells the history of Nevada City, California, through the eyes of the men that built it. For its first 100 years, everything in Nevada City revolved around gold. But this is not another book about finding gold. To get gold, you needed water — to pan for it, to wash it in a sluice, to blast away a hillside with an immense water cannon, or to turn the water wheel of a quartz-ore stamp mill. This book instead asks: How did they get the water? It reveals the engineering marvels that brought water to Nevada City’s dry hills from tens of miles away. But what if all the water in every ravine, creek and valley around Nevada City was controlled by just three men? Well, for three decades, every miner, farmer or business could only buy water from the powerful South Yuba Canal Company. What would happen if you got into an argument with them? Or couldn’t afford to pay their water bill? Or even dared to compete with them? The book traces the ingenuity and hard work of the town’s miners and ditch builders, highlighting in detail the history and origins of various local neighborhoods, including Nevada City itself, Hirschman's Pond, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Deer Creek, Scotts Flat, Manzanita Diggings, Gold Flat and various mining camps along Washington Ridge. This vivid portrayal follows the area’s evolution from the chaos of thousands of miners scratching out a living in clusters of muddy tents to a genteel town with hotels, stores, banks, theaters and libraries. What began as a search to uncover a sprawling network of old ditches, turned into a collection of never-before-told stories of the gold miners, the ruthless and greedy ditch company, and the rivals that it crushed. The domineering ditch company later enabled the next generation of monopoly to provide electrical power. The story of PG&E also started in Nevada City. This, in turn, led to the now more forward-looking stewardship of the Nevada Irrigation District. The unique format of this book blends beautiful archival images with more than 35 in-depth biographies of key figures in Nevada City. This 884 page hardcover book includes over 600 photos and illustrations, including 200 historic photographs and 75 hand-crafted maps based on modern lidar technology that reveal the locations of the old mining ditches, flumes, mines and tunnels.
Iowa State Gazetteer, Embracing Descriptive and Historical Sketches of Counties, Cities, Towns and Villages; ... to which is Added a Shippers'Guide and a Classified Business Directory ... Compiled and Edited by J. T. Hair
Author: James T. HairHistory of Placer and Nevada Counties California
Author: William B. LardnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nevada County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description