Author: Francisco Antonio Mourelle de la RúaPublisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Voyage of the Sonora in the Second Bucareli Expedition to Explore the Northwest Coast, Survey the Port of San Francisco, and Found Franciscan Missions and a Presidio and Pueblo at that Port
Author: Francisco Antonio Mourelle de la RúaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Voyage of the Sonora in the Second Bucareli Expedition to Explore the Northwest Coast Survey the Port of San Francisco and Found Franciscan Missions and a Presidio and Pueblo at that Port
Author: Francisco Antonio Mourelle de la RúaPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
Author: Dame ShirleyPublisher:
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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.
Voyage of the Sonora in the Second Bucareli Expedition to Explore the Northwest Coast, Survey of the Port of San Francisco, and Found Franciscan Missions and a Presidio and Pueblo at that Port
Author: Francisco Antonio Mourelle de la RúaPublisher:
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Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Northwest Anthropological Research Notes
Author: Roderick SpraguePublisher: Northwest Anthropology
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
Sasquatch Handprints, Grover S. Krantz Some Pacific Northwest Native Language Names for the Sasquatch Phenomenon, Bruce Rigsby Tlingits of Bucareli Bay, Alaska (1774–1792), Mary Gormly The Public Image of Archaeology in Washington State, Gerald R. Clark Field Notes and Correspondence of the 1901 Field Columbian Museum Expedition by Merton L. Miller to the Columbia Plateau, Roderick Sprague Linguistic Notes, Haruo Aoki and Bruce Rigsby
The Exploited Seas
Author: Poul HolmPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 178694913X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The book combines the approaches of maritime history and ecological science to explore the evolution of life-forms and eco-systems in the ocean from a historical perspective, in order to establish and develop the sub-discipline of marine environmental history. Documentary records relating to the human activity, such as fishing, plus naturally occurring paleo-ecological data are analysed in order to determine the structure and function of exploited ecosystems. The book is divided into four chapter groups, the first concerned with Newfoundland and Grand Banks’ fisheries, the second with the potential of historical sources to provide a history of marine animal populations, the third explores the development of fisheries in the southern hemisphere during the twentieth century, and the final section explores the limitations of data and existing analysis of whale populations. The epilogue reiterates the suggestion that collaboration between historians and biologists is the key to furthering the sub-discipline.
Writings on American History
Author: Voyage of the Sonora from the 1775 Journal of Don Francisco Antonio Mourelle as Translated by Daines Barrington
Author: Francisco Antonio Mourelle de la RúaPublisher:
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Category : Northwest Coast of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Concepción de Argüello
Author: Bret HartePublisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Harte's poem about the romance between Concepción de Argüello and the Russian explorer Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov.
The Chinook Indians
Author: Robert H. RubyPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806121079
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Chinook Indians, who originally lived at the mouth of the Columbia River in present-day Oregon and Washington, were experienced traders long before the arrival of white men to that area. When Captain Robert Gray in the ship Columbia Rediviva, for which the river was named, entered the Columbia in 1792, he found the Chinooks in an important position in the trade system between inland Indians and those of the Northwest Coast. The system was based on a small seashell, the dentalium, as the principal medium of exchange. The Chinooks traded in such items as sea otter furs, elkskin armor which could withstand arrows, seagoing canoes hollowed from the trunks of giant trees, and slaves captured from other tribes. Chinook women held equal status with the men in the trade, and in fact the women were preferred as traders by many later ships' captains, who often feared and distrusted the Indian men. The Chinooks welcomed white men not only for the new trade goods they brought, but also for the new outlets they provided Chinook goods, which reached Vancouver Island and as far north as Alaska. The trade was advantageous for the white men, too, for British and American ships that carried sea otter furs from the Northwest Coast to China often realized enormous profits. Although the first white men in the trade were seamen, land-based traders set up posts on the Columbia not long after American explorers Lewis and Clark blazed the trail from the United States to the Pacific Northwest in 1805. John Jacob Astor's men founded the first successful white trading post at Fort Astoria, the site of today's Astoria, Oregon, and the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company soon followed into the territory. As more white men moved into the area, the Chinooks began to lose their favored position as middlemen in the trade. Alcohol; new diseases such as smallpox, influenza, and venereal disease; intertribal warfare; and the growing number of white settlers soon led to the near extinction of the Chinooks. By 1&51, when the first treaty was made between them and the United States government, they were living in small, fragmented bands scattered throughout the territory. Today the Chinook Indians are working to revive their tribal traditions and history and to establish a new tribal economy within the white man's system.