Author: Joseph GaerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnic groups
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Despite its title, this is not an index but an analytical table of contents for Borthwick's Three years in California (1857).
Index ... Three Years in California by J.D. Borthwick with Illustrations by the Author ; William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh and London, MDCCCLVII
Author: Joseph GaerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnic groups
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Despite its title, this is not an index but an analytical table of contents for Borthwick's Three years in California (1857).
Index ... Three Years in California
Author: Joseph GaerThe National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
A Frenchman in the Gold Rush
Author: Ernest de MasseyPublisher: San Francisco, California historical society
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Ernest de Massey was the younger son of a well-to-do French family that sailed to America and the Gold Rush in the spring of 1849. He eventually settled in San Francisco, where he lived until his return to Europe in 1857. A Frenchman in the gold rush (1927) is a translation of de Massey's journal covering his voyage to California, gold mining on the Trinity River, 1850, and visits to San José, Santa Cruz, and San Juan Bautista; and his career as a San Francisco businessman and journalist, 1850-1851.
Two Years in California
Author: Mary ConePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385528003
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
The Round Trip from the Hub to the Golden Gate
Author: Susie Champney ClarkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Susie Champney Clark was a Boston matron who visited California as a member of an organized rail tour forty years after the Gold Rush. The round trip from the Hub to the Golden gate (1890) describes that rail trip, with special attention to stops at Chicago, Pasadena, Santa Barbara, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Oakland, Sonoma County, the Lick Observatory, Santa Cruz, Monterey, Yosemite, and Salt Lake City.
Life and Adventures of Col. L.A. Norton
Author: Lewis Adelbert NortonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlantic States
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Lewis Adelbert Norton (b. 1819) grew up in Canada and western New York. Banished from Canada for taking the Patriot side in the Rebellion of 1837-1838, Norton settled in Illinois, where he raised a regiment for the Mexican War. On his return home, he led an overland party to California. Life and adventures of Col. L.A. Norton (1887) describes Norton's early life and his journey west. Of his life in California, he chronicles careers as miner, lawyer, and merchant in Placerville. In 1856 he moves to Healdsburg, where his law practice involves him in the Squatter War on the Russian River. The book closes with his account of an 1874 rail trip east, revisiting Canada, New York, and New England before returning to Healdsburg.
Up and Down California in 1860-1864
Author: William Henry BrewerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520027626
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
The journal seems to contain information for everyone regardless of one's interest...Each page of this almost six hundred page journal is crammed with facts and descriptions. So much of interest is contained in every entry that each re-reading will reveal many interesting incidents or observations not quite grasped on the first perusal....This book will be a valuable source to all students of California or United States history and to the casual readers as well.
Gold and Sunshine, Reminiscences of Early California
Author: James J. AyersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
James J. Ayers left St. Louis, Missouri for California in 1849. He remained to carve out a career for himself in journalism. Gold and sunshine (1922) was completed by Ayers in retirement at Azusa in 1896 but not published until after his death. He recalls his 1849 voyage to California and brief career as a miner in Calaveras County, newspaper publishing in Mokelumne Hill (1850-1852), and San Francisco (1850s). Ayers also discusses local and national politics for all periods as well as a theatrical tour in the Gold Rush, a Civil War visit to the front and meeting with Lincoln, Nevada gold and silver mining, the California Constitutional Convention of 1878, and Sacramento in the 1880s.
Diary of a Physician: In California, the Results of Actual Experience Including Notes of the Journey by Land and Water and Observations on T
Author: M. D. James Lawrence TysonPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429045574
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Dr. James L. Tyson sailed from Baltimore for California in January 1849, crossing the Isthmus and sailing on to San Francisco. Diary of a physician in California (1850) recounts his 1849 tour of the Northern Mines in search of a likely place for his medical practice and his hospital at Cold Spring, where his patients included a number of Oregonians. Tyson closes his hospital at the end of the summer, sailing from San Francisco as a ship's physician, crossing the Isthmus and landing in the United States in December 1849. His diary pays special attention to miners' health and working conditions