Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Placer County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Directory of the County of Placer for the Year 1861
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Placer County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Directory of the County of Placer for the Year 1861
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Placer County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Directory of the County of Placer for the Year 1861
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Placer County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Directory of the County of Placer for the Year 1861
Author: California Gold Camps
Author: Erwin G. GuddePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520261445
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
Many books have been written about the California Gold Rush, but a geographical-historical dictionary has long been lacking. With the publication of California Gold Camps, a monumental project has been completed. California Gold Camps is a basic reference that will be indispensable to the historian, the geographer, and to the general reader interested in California's colorful past.
The Sutter Family and the Origins of Gold-Rush Sacramento
Author: John Augustus SutterPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806134932
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
John A. Sutter (1803-1880) could have become one of the richest men in California when gold was found on his property. Instead he lost his vast land holdings on the Sacramento and Feather Rivers and eventually left California penniless. Sutter always claimed to be the victim of charlatans, but he bore considerable responsibility for his downfall. He had amassed huge debts before the gold discovery and added even more afterward. In the rough dealings of frontier capitalism in gold rush California, Sutter was easy prey. Soon after the gold discovery, Sutter’s eldest son, John Jr., (1826-1897) arrived, but soon moved south to Mexico. Hoping to obtain compensation for the land that he and his father had lost, John, Jr., returned to California in 1855 to give his lawyer a thorough statement cataloging how both Sutters were swindled. This extensive document describes the dirty deals of the first great gold rush in the western United States. Sutter’s statement has not been available for sixty years. Editor Allan R. Ottley reproduced and annotated this statement, providing a full biographical context and offering an appendix, bibliography, and index. Albert L. Hurtado’s introduction updates the book, originally published in 1942.
A Catalogue of the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana
Author: Colton StormPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN:
Category : Americana
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Dawson's Book ShopPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Directory of the County of Placer for the Year 1861, Containing a History of the County and of the Different Towns in the County; with the Names of Inhabitants and Every Thing Appertaining to a Complete Directory
Author: Pioneer Photographers of the Far West
Author: Peter E. PalmquistPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804738835
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
This extraordinarily comprehensive, well-documented, biographical dictionary of some 1,500 photographers (and workers engaged in photographically related pursuits) active in western North America before 1865 is enriched by some 250 illustrations. Far from being simply a reference tool, the book provides a rich trove of fascinating narratives that cover both the professional and personal lives of a colorful cast of characters.