Author: Henry-Jean-Antoine AlricPublisher:
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Sketches of a journey on the two oceans and to the interior of America, and of a civil was in Northern Lower California (Esquisses d'un voyage sur les deux océans et à l'intérieur de l'Amérique et d'une guerre civile au nord de la Basse-Californie, engl.) Transl. from the French by Norah E. Jones
Author: Henry-Jean-Antoine AlricPublisher:
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Between Two Oceans
Author: Iza Duffus HardyPublisher: London : Hurst and Blackett
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Category : Mormons
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Sketches of a Journey on the Two Oceans and to the Interior of America
Author: Henry-Jean-Antoine AlricPublisher:
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Between Two Oceans
Author: Iza Duffus HardyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781331266198
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Excerpt from Between Two Oceans: Or Sketches of American Travel Our big ship stretched its lazy length sleepily along the sluggish, dark waters of the Mersey, as our little snorting tender came fussily up, like a small, pug-nosed puppy to a great, sleeping mastiff. The dingy little tender was crowded, our close ranks packed together as tightly as if we were preserved goods 'canned' for exportation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Between Two Oceans, Or, Sketches of American Travel
Author: Hardy DuffusPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781313758031
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Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Californio Portraits
Author: Harry W. CrosbyPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806152583
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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First published in 1981, Harry W. Crosby’s Last of the Californios captured the history of the mountain people of Baja California during a critical moment of transition, when the 1974 completion of the transpeninsular highway increased the Californios’ contact with the outside world and profoundly affected their traditional way of life. This updated and expanded version of that now-classic work incorporates the fruits of further investigation into the Californios’ lives and history, by Crosby and others. The result is the most thorough and extensive account of the people of Baja California from the time of the peninsula’s occupation by the Spaniards in the seventeenth century to the present. Californio Portraits combines history and sociology to provide an in-depth view of a culture that has managed to survive dramatic changes. Having ridden hundreds of miles by mule to visit with various Californio families and gain their confidence, Crosby provides an unparalleled view of their unique lifestyle. Beginning with the story of the first Californios—the eighteenth-century presidio soldiers who accompanied Jesuit missionaries, followed by miners and independent ranchers—Crosby provides personal accounts of their modern-day descendants and the ways they build their homes, prepare their food, find their water, and tan their cowhides. Augmenting his previous work with significant new sources, material, and photographs, he draws a richly textured portrait of a people unlike any other—families cultivating skills from an earlier century, living in semi-isolation for decades and, even after completion of the transpeninsular highway, reachable only by mule and horseback. Combining a revised and updated text with a new foreword, introduction, and updated bibliography, Californio Portraits offers the clearest and most detailed portrait possible of a fascinating, unique, and inaccessible people and culture.
Rush to Gold
Author: Malcolm J. RohrboughPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030018218X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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DIVThe California Gold Rush began in 1848 and incited many “wagons west.” However, only half of the 300,000 gold seekers traveled by land. The other half traveled by sea. And it’s the story of this second group that interests Malcolm Rohrbough in his authoritative new book, The Rush to Gold. He examines the California Gold Rush through the eyes of 30,000 French participants. In so doing, he offers a completely original analysis of an important—but previously neglected—chapter in the history of the Gold Rush, which occurred at a time of sweeping changes in France./divDIV/divDIVRohrbough is the author of Days of Gold, which is generally accepted as the essential text on the subject. This new book comes out of his extended research in French archives. He is the first to provide an international focus to these pivotal events in mid-nineteenth-century America. The Rush to Gold is an important contribution to the fast-growing field of transnational American history./div
Conflicts of Interest
Author: MarÕa Amparo Ruiz de BurtonPublisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781611920994
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, the recently discovered nineteenth-century novelist, broke many of the boundaries that circumscribed the life of both women and Hispanics in the southwestern territories of the United States. Not only was she the first Hispanic novelist to write English, but her courage and resolve took her into the circles of governmental and financial power where very few women had tread before. Conflicts of Interest captures the conflicted personality of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, a woman pulled in different directions by tensions of class, race, gender, and nationality. The trajectory of Ruiz de Burtons life through her correspondence makes for a compelling and revealing narrative, one that brings to life the evolution of discourse and culture in the Southwest as it was becoming integrated in the United States a process which, some might argue, continues today. This volume is as complete a collection of the Ruiz de Burton letters as is possible, given the imperfect historical record. Included are various personal and business documents and a collection of articles about her family. Among her correspondents were such important historical figures as Samuel L. M. Barlow, E. W. Morse, Prudenciana Moreno, and Platón Vallejo. But this album is not a simple collection of letters and documents; rather, researchers Sánchez and Pita have made great efforts to reconstitute Ruiz de Burtons life and times through their analysis and commentary.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1620
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The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1662
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