Author: Louise Amelia Knapp Smith ClappePublisher: Heyday
ISBN: 9781890771003
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
A pioneer woman describes life near a northern California mining camp during the fabled "gold rush."
The Shirley Letters from the California Mines, 1851-1852
Author: Louise Amelia Knapp Smith ClappePublisher: Heyday
ISBN: 9781890771003
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
A pioneer woman describes life near a northern California mining camp during the fabled "gold rush."
The Shirley Letters from the California Mines, 1851-1852
Author: The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
Author: Dame ShirleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Educated in Amherst, Massachusetts, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (1819-1906) accompanied her physician-husband to California in 1849. The couple first lived in mining camps where Dr. Clappe practiced medicine and then moved to San Francisco, where Mrs. Clappe taught in the public schools for more than twenty years. The Shirley letters (1922) is the book edition of a series of letters written by Mrs. Clappe to her sister in 1851 and 1852. They were first published under the pseudonym of "Dame Shirley" in the Pioneer magazine, 1854-55. In these letters Louise Clappe writes of life in San Francisco and the Feather River mining communities of Rich Bar and Indian Bar. She focuses on the experiences of women and children, the perils of miners' work, crime and punishment, and relations with native Hispanic residents and Native Americans. Bret Harte is said to have based two of his stories on the "Shirley" letters.
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
Author: Dame ShirleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Educated in Amherst, Massachusetts, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (1819-1906) accompanied her physician-husband to California in 1849. The couple first lived in mining camps where Dr. Clappe practiced medicine and then moved to San Francisco, where Mrs. Clappe taught in the public schools for more than twenty years. The Shirley letters (1922) is the book edition of a series of letters written by Mrs. Clappe to her sister in 1851 and 1852. They were first published under the pseudonym of "Dame Shirley" in the Pioneer magazine, 1854-55. In these letters Louise Clappe writes of life in San Francisco and the Feather River mining communities of Rich Bar and Indian Bar. She focuses on the experiences of women and children, the perils of miners' work, crime and punishment, and relations with native Hispanic residents and Native Americans. Bret Harte is said to have based two of his stories on the "Shirley" letters.
They Saw the Elephant
Author: JoAnn LevyPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806189959
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
"The phrase ’seeing the elephant’ symbolized for ’49 gold rushers the exotic, the mythical, the once-in-a-lifetime adventure, unequaled anywhere else but in the journey to the promised land of fortune: California. Most western myths . . . generally depict an exclusively male gold rush. Levy’s book debunks that myth. Here a variety of women travel, work, and write their way across the pages of western migrant history."-Choice "One of the best and most comprehensive accounts of gold rush life to date"ˆ–San Francisco Chronicle
The Shirley Letters from the California Mines, 1851-1852
Author: Louise Amelia Knapp Smith ClappePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Twenty-three letters written by the author to her sister, Mary Jane, in Massachusetts, under the pseud., Dame Shirley.
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
Author: Louise ClappePublisher: Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1647981352
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Shirley Letters were written between September 1851 and November 1852, by Louise Clappe under the pen name Dame Shirley. These letters, addressed to her sister Molly back east, describe how California mining life was like during the Gold Rush.
The Diary of a Forty-niner
Author: Chauncey L. CanfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Chauncey de Leon Canfield (1843-1909) first published "The diary of a forty-niner" in 1906, and 1,200 of the 2,000 copies in that edition were burned. Joseph Gaer's Bibliography of California literature describes this book as written in the form of a diary, but fictional. The diary of a forty-niner (1920) reprints Canfield's 1906 publication. It purports to be the diary of Alfred T. Jackson, of Litchfield County, Connecticut, during his days as a gold prospector, 1850-1852. Jackson offers first-hand accounts of Nevada City and neighboring Rock Creek; descriptions of Grass Valley, North and South Yuba Valleys, and the Sierra Mountains; details of gold mining with accounts of pioneer overland crossings, and foreign mineworkers (including Chinese). Entries concerning Jackson's personal life include details of his courtship of a French woman in the camps.
Assembling California
Author: John McPheePublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374706026
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally intersect—in the gold disruptions of the nineteenth century no less than in the earthquakes of the twentieth—and always with relevance to a newly understood geologic history in which half a dozen large and separate pieces of country are seen to have drifted in from far and near to coalesce as California. McPhee and Moores also journeyed to remote mountains of Arizona and to Cyprus and northern Greece, where rock of the deep-ocean floor has been transported into continental settings, as it has in California. Global in scope and a delight to read, Assembling California is a sweeping narrative of maps in motion, of evolving and dissolving lands.
Roaring Camp
Author: Susan Lee JohnsonPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393320992
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Historical insight is the alchemy that transforms the familiar story of the Gold Rush into something sparkling and new. The world of the Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film--of unshaven men named Stumpy and Kentuck raising hell and panning for gold--is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode. She finds a dynamic social world in which the conventions of identity--ethnic, national, and sexual--were reshaped in surprising ways. She gives us the all-male households of the diggings, the mines where the men worked, and the fandango houses where they played. With a keen eye for character and story, Johnson restores the particular social world that issued in the Gold Rush myths we still cherish.