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Author: Richard H. Dillon Publisher: ISBN: Category : California Languages : en Pages : 408
Book Description
Dillon examines the paradoxical personality of John Sutter, the Father of California, and one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of the American West.
Author: Richard H. Dillon Publisher: ISBN: Category : California Languages : en Pages : 408
Book Description
Dillon examines the paradoxical personality of John Sutter, the Father of California, and one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of the American West.
Author: Albert L. Hurtado Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 9780806137728 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 450
Book Description
Re-examines the life of John Sutter in the context of America's rush for westward expansion in a fully documented account of the Swiss expatriate and would-be empire builder and his times.
Author: Leonard L. Richards Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307277577 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 306
Book Description
Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that was to come. When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, Americans of all stripes saw the potential for both wealth and power. Among the more calculating were Southern slave owners. By making California a slave state, they could increase the value of their slaves—by 50 percent at least, and maybe much more. They could also gain additional influence in Congress and expand Southern economic clout, abetted by a new transcontinental railroad that would run through the South. Yet, despite their machinations, California entered the union as a free state. Disillusioned Southerners would agitate for even more slave territory, leading to the Kansas-Nebraska Act and, ultimately, to the Civil War itself.
Author: Janice T. Driesbach Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520214323 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 166
Book Description
"Art of the Gold Rush" features drawings and oil paintings of images of the scenery, people, and activity surrounding the 80,000 travelers to California in search of golden nuggets.
Author: Kenneth N. Owens Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9780803286184 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
This volume begins with John Sutter's own account of his life and the discovery of gold at his sawmill in 1848. Leading historians Howard R. Lamar, Albert L. Hurtado, Iris H. W. Engstrand, Richard W. White, and Patricia Nelson Limerick then demythologize Sutter while giving him a more secure place in western history.
Author: Jacob Wright Harlan Publisher: ISBN: Category : Agriculture Languages : en Pages : 256
Book Description
Jacob Wright Harlan (born 1828) grew up in Indiana and moved to Michigan where he joined an uncle who organized a wagon train to California in 1845. California '46 to '88 (1888) contains Harlan's memories of his overland journey to California in 1846, acquaintance with rescuers and survivors of the Reid and Donner Parties, Frémont's battalion in 1846-1847, San Francisco milk and livery businesses, storekeeping in gold camps near Coloma and Sonora, farming and ranching in and near San José, San Joaquín Valley, Alameda, and Choloma Valley. He then recalls his second overland trip to California, 1853, as part of cattle drive and real estate development in San Leandro.
Author: Richard H. Dillon
Author: Richard H. Dillon
Author: Jonreed Lauritzen
Author: James Stephens Brown
Author: Johann August Sutter
Author: Albert L. Hurtado
Author: Blaise Cendrars
Author: Leonard L. Richards
Author: Janice T. Driesbach
Author: Kenneth N. Owens
Author: Jacob Wright Harlan