Author: Sonoma County Genealogical Society
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365131262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Portraits of Early Sonoma County Settlers is the narrative history of sixteen early settlers in the area which is now Sonoma County, California. A number of these persons arrived before California became a state in 1850. A number of them were lured here by the Gold Rush of 1849. They engaged in wide and diverse activities. Several were directly or indirectly involved in the settlement and development of new towns in the area. Others contributed to the development of agriculture, schools, and religion. Some of them had to deal with the Mexican Government and the ranchos in early Alta California. Overall it gives a good picture of what the area was like as it moved towards and became a part of the United States of America.
Portraits of Early Sonoma County Settlers
Author: Sonoma County Genealogical Society
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365131262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Portraits of Early Sonoma County Settlers is the narrative history of sixteen early settlers in the area which is now Sonoma County, California. A number of these persons arrived before California became a state in 1850. A number of them were lured here by the Gold Rush of 1849. They engaged in wide and diverse activities. Several were directly or indirectly involved in the settlement and development of new towns in the area. Others contributed to the development of agriculture, schools, and religion. Some of them had to deal with the Mexican Government and the ranchos in early Alta California. Overall it gives a good picture of what the area was like as it moved towards and became a part of the United States of America.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365131262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Portraits of Early Sonoma County Settlers is the narrative history of sixteen early settlers in the area which is now Sonoma County, California. A number of these persons arrived before California became a state in 1850. A number of them were lured here by the Gold Rush of 1849. They engaged in wide and diverse activities. Several were directly or indirectly involved in the settlement and development of new towns in the area. Others contributed to the development of agriculture, schools, and religion. Some of them had to deal with the Mexican Government and the ranchos in early Alta California. Overall it gives a good picture of what the area was like as it moved towards and became a part of the United States of America.
The Book of Dow
Charlestown Navy Yard, Historic Resource Study, Volume 3 of 3, 2010
The Missions and Missionaries of California
Author: Zephyrin Engelhardt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Comprehensive history of the Jesuit, Franciscan, and Dominican missionaries in Lower California and of the Franciscans in Upper California.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Comprehensive history of the Jesuit, Franciscan, and Dominican missionaries in Lower California and of the Franciscans in Upper California.
The Fortunes of Jaded Women
Author: Carolyn Huynh
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 198218874X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
For fans of Jonathan Tropper, Amy Tan, and Kevin Kwan, this “sharp, smart, and gloriously extra” (Nancy Jooyoun Kim, author of The Last Story of Mina Lee) novel follows a family of estranged Vietnamese women—cursed to never know love or happiness—as they reunite when a psychic makes a startling prediction. Everyone in Orange County’s Little Saigon knew that the Duong sisters were cursed. It started with their ancestor, Oanh, who dared to leave her marriage for true love—so a fearsome Vietnamese witch cursed Oanh and her descendants so that they would never find love or happiness, and the Duong women would only give birth to daughters. Oanh’s current descendant Mai Nguyen knows this curse well. She’s divorced, and after an explosive disagreement a decade ago, estranged from her younger sisters, Minh Pham (the middle and the mediator) and Khuyen Lam (the youngest who swears she just runs humble coffee shops and nail salons, not Little Saigon’s underground). Though Mai’s three adult daughters, Priscilla, Thuy, and Thao, are successful in their careers (one of them is John Cho’s dermatologist!), the same can’t be said for their love lives. Mai is convinced they might drive her to an early grave. Desperate for guidance, she consults Auntie Hua, her trusted psychic in Hawaii, who delivers an unexpected prediction: this year, her family will witness a marriage, a funeral, and the birth of a son. This prophecy will reunite estranged mothers, daughters, aunts, and cousins—for better or for worse. A multi-narrative novel brimming with levity and candor, “The Fortunes of Jaded Women pulls off the magic trick of being a heartfelt, multi-generational epic as well as a fast-paced, hilarious romp. It is your good fortune to have this novel in your hands” (Camille Perri, author of When Katie Met Cassidy).
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 198218874X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
For fans of Jonathan Tropper, Amy Tan, and Kevin Kwan, this “sharp, smart, and gloriously extra” (Nancy Jooyoun Kim, author of The Last Story of Mina Lee) novel follows a family of estranged Vietnamese women—cursed to never know love or happiness—as they reunite when a psychic makes a startling prediction. Everyone in Orange County’s Little Saigon knew that the Duong sisters were cursed. It started with their ancestor, Oanh, who dared to leave her marriage for true love—so a fearsome Vietnamese witch cursed Oanh and her descendants so that they would never find love or happiness, and the Duong women would only give birth to daughters. Oanh’s current descendant Mai Nguyen knows this curse well. She’s divorced, and after an explosive disagreement a decade ago, estranged from her younger sisters, Minh Pham (the middle and the mediator) and Khuyen Lam (the youngest who swears she just runs humble coffee shops and nail salons, not Little Saigon’s underground). Though Mai’s three adult daughters, Priscilla, Thuy, and Thao, are successful in their careers (one of them is John Cho’s dermatologist!), the same can’t be said for their love lives. Mai is convinced they might drive her to an early grave. Desperate for guidance, she consults Auntie Hua, her trusted psychic in Hawaii, who delivers an unexpected prediction: this year, her family will witness a marriage, a funeral, and the birth of a son. This prophecy will reunite estranged mothers, daughters, aunts, and cousins—for better or for worse. A multi-narrative novel brimming with levity and candor, “The Fortunes of Jaded Women pulls off the magic trick of being a heartfelt, multi-generational epic as well as a fast-paced, hilarious romp. It is your good fortune to have this novel in your hands” (Camille Perri, author of When Katie Met Cassidy).
Mountains and Molehills, Or, Recollections of a Burnt Journal
Author: Frank Marryat
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Frank Marryat (1826-1855) left England for California via Panama with a manservant and three hunting dogs in 1850, hoping to find material for a book like his earlier Borneo. On his return to England in 1853, Marryat married and brought his bride back to California that same year. Yellow fever contracted on shipboard forced him to cut the trip short and return to England where he died two years later. Mountains and molehills (1855) is a sportsman-tourist's chronicle of California in the early 1850s: hunting, horse races, bear and bull fights. It also includes an Englishman's bemused comments on social life in San Francisco, Stockton, and the gold fields.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Frank Marryat (1826-1855) left England for California via Panama with a manservant and three hunting dogs in 1850, hoping to find material for a book like his earlier Borneo. On his return to England in 1853, Marryat married and brought his bride back to California that same year. Yellow fever contracted on shipboard forced him to cut the trip short and return to England where he died two years later. Mountains and molehills (1855) is a sportsman-tourist's chronicle of California in the early 1850s: hunting, horse races, bear and bull fights. It also includes an Englishman's bemused comments on social life in San Francisco, Stockton, and the gold fields.
Fifty Years in the Northwest
Author: William Henry Carman Folsom
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Chapters start with historical information about a county or places within the county followed by biographies of people from those localities.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Chapters start with historical information about a county or places within the county followed by biographies of people from those localities.
Advance Report on the Sedimentation Survey of Burnt Mills Reservoir, Silver Spring, Maryland, February 22- March 3, 1938
Author: Farrell Francis Barnes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burnt Mills Reservoir (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burnt Mills Reservoir (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Export Marketing for Smaller Firms
Author: International Marketing Institute (Cambridge, Mass.)
Publisher:
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Category : Export marketing
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Export marketing
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Recollections of Pioneer Work in California
Author: James Woods
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The author describes his travel to California and preaching throughout the state between 1849 and 1860
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The author describes his travel to California and preaching throughout the state between 1849 and 1860