Author:
Publisher: Primary Source Microfilm
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The guide provides Research Publications' fiche and reel numbers, with their contents, for City directories of the United States in microform; segment 1 (pre 1860), segment 2 (1861-1881) and segment 3 (1882-1901).
City Directories of the United States, 1860-1901
Author:
Publisher: Primary Source Microfilm
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The guide provides Research Publications' fiche and reel numbers, with their contents, for City directories of the United States in microform; segment 1 (pre 1860), segment 2 (1861-1881) and segment 3 (1882-1901).
Publisher: Primary Source Microfilm
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The guide provides Research Publications' fiche and reel numbers, with their contents, for City directories of the United States in microform; segment 1 (pre 1860), segment 2 (1861-1881) and segment 3 (1882-1901).
Jersey Gold
Author: Margaret Casterline Bowen
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806157984
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
When gold fever struck in 1849, John S. Darcy—prominent physician, general, and president of the New Jersey Railroad—assembled a company to travel overland to California. In Jersey Gold, Margaret Casterline Bowen and Gwendolyn Joslin Hiles tell the story of that colorful company of some thirty stalwarts and adventurers. Jersey Gold chronicles the experiences of the New Jersey argonauts from their lives before the gold rush to the widely varying fortunes each ultimately found. Animated by the trekkers’ own words and observations and illustrated with maps, photographs, and drawings by one of the company’s own men, Jersey Gold follows the Newark Overland Company’s journey by rail, stage, and riverboat to the Missouri frontier town of Independence, the group’s jumping-off point for the Oregon-California trail. There, the company splintered. Their divergent paths afford views of the westward journey from multiple perspectives as the companies faced the perils of the wilderness and the treachery of human nature. Once in gold country, many booked immediate passage home, but some remained with Darcy to work a successful mining operation before returning east with comfortable fortunes. A few, enchanted by the opportunities of the Golden Coast, took up permanent residence there—and in their stories we witness the emergence of California amid unprecedented lawlessness, the controversy of slavery, and diverse nationalities. The story of the Newark Overland Company—in many ways a panorama of the nineteenth century—ranges from the wildness of the frontier through the chaos of the Civil War to the throes of early industrialization, and features such notables as John Sutter, Brigham Young, and Henry Clay. In chronicling this journey, Jersey Gold vividly re-creates a defining chapter in American history.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806157984
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
When gold fever struck in 1849, John S. Darcy—prominent physician, general, and president of the New Jersey Railroad—assembled a company to travel overland to California. In Jersey Gold, Margaret Casterline Bowen and Gwendolyn Joslin Hiles tell the story of that colorful company of some thirty stalwarts and adventurers. Jersey Gold chronicles the experiences of the New Jersey argonauts from their lives before the gold rush to the widely varying fortunes each ultimately found. Animated by the trekkers’ own words and observations and illustrated with maps, photographs, and drawings by one of the company’s own men, Jersey Gold follows the Newark Overland Company’s journey by rail, stage, and riverboat to the Missouri frontier town of Independence, the group’s jumping-off point for the Oregon-California trail. There, the company splintered. Their divergent paths afford views of the westward journey from multiple perspectives as the companies faced the perils of the wilderness and the treachery of human nature. Once in gold country, many booked immediate passage home, but some remained with Darcy to work a successful mining operation before returning east with comfortable fortunes. A few, enchanted by the opportunities of the Golden Coast, took up permanent residence there—and in their stories we witness the emergence of California amid unprecedented lawlessness, the controversy of slavery, and diverse nationalities. The story of the Newark Overland Company—in many ways a panorama of the nineteenth century—ranges from the wildness of the frontier through the chaos of the Civil War to the throes of early industrialization, and features such notables as John Sutter, Brigham Young, and Henry Clay. In chronicling this journey, Jersey Gold vividly re-creates a defining chapter in American history.
Genealogical & Local History Books in Print
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
A biographical directory of the United States Customs Service, 1771-1989
Author: U.S. Customs Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The Development and Growth of City Directories
Author: A. V. Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Compilation of directory publications by major city, worldwide, before 1913.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Compilation of directory publications by major city, worldwide, before 1913.
A Biographical Directory of the United States Customs Service, 1771-1989
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Newark Library Association
Author: Newark (N.J.). Library Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
New York City Directory
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 2294
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 2294
Book Description
Historical Directory of the Reformed Church in America, 1628-1992
Author: Russell L. Gasero
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802806635
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802806635
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description