Author: Territorial Pioneers of California, San Francisco
Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
First Annual of the Territorial Pioneers of California
Author: Territorial Pioneers of California, San Francisco
Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Notes of a Voyage to California Via Cape Horn
Author: Samuel Curtis Upham
Publisher:
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Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Samuel Curtis Upham (1819-1885) was a clerk in a Philadelphia merchant house when he decided to try his luck in California in January, 1849. Sailing round the Horn, he visited Rio de Janeiro and Talcahuana before landing in San Francisco. After a brief career as a gold miner at the Calaveras diggings, Upham moved to Sacramento, where he published the Sacramento Transcript, May-August 1850. Notes of a voyage to California (1878) includes Upham's memoirs of his early years in California, with special attention to Sacramento's colorful history in 1850. He closes his narrative with a brief description of his return to Philadelphia that same year via Panama. The book's lengthy appendix contains chapters on California journalism, the California exhibition at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition, and various reunion dinners and other events sponsored by the California "Pioneers" association.
Publisher:
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Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Samuel Curtis Upham (1819-1885) was a clerk in a Philadelphia merchant house when he decided to try his luck in California in January, 1849. Sailing round the Horn, he visited Rio de Janeiro and Talcahuana before landing in San Francisco. After a brief career as a gold miner at the Calaveras diggings, Upham moved to Sacramento, where he published the Sacramento Transcript, May-August 1850. Notes of a voyage to California (1878) includes Upham's memoirs of his early years in California, with special attention to Sacramento's colorful history in 1850. He closes his narrative with a brief description of his return to Philadelphia that same year via Panama. The book's lengthy appendix contains chapters on California journalism, the California exhibition at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition, and various reunion dinners and other events sponsored by the California "Pioneers" association.
Re-unions of the Old Californians in New York
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385372739
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385372739
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
The Overland Monthly
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 744
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 744
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Overland Monthly
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine
Author:
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Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Gold Seeking
Author: David Goodman
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804724807
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
"The brave independence of the 'roaring days', the camaraderie of the gold fields, jolly diggers on a spree - these are the images that have come down to us of the gold era of the 1850s in Australia and California. But these images were largely shaped decades later, by writers such as Henry Lawson and Bret Harte - they speak of later nostalgia rather than the experience of the time." "In this study of the contemporary response to the discoveries of gold in Victoria and California, David Goodman argues that people at the time were apprehensive about gold rushing, and the kind of society it seemed to prefigure. In the chaos of the gold rushes, individual self-interest seemed to be all that could motivate people to any exertion. And it was only the economic rationalists of the day - those who believed in political economy and its promise, that out of the confusion of individual self-interest would come some sort of social order - who could wholeheartedly endorse the gold rushes as events." "This is a history of the ways people talked about gold. As the first full-length cultural history of the gold rushes on two continents, it examines the meanings of gold at the time, and the narratives which were told about social disruption. It locates the deeper underlying themes in the response to gold. It also looks at the ways in which the dominant later memories of gold were shaped. And it is about national differences, about the construction of distinctive national cultures out of materials common to the British world. This book should be read not only by Australian and American historians but by anyone with an interest in the cultural history of modernity."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804724807
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
"The brave independence of the 'roaring days', the camaraderie of the gold fields, jolly diggers on a spree - these are the images that have come down to us of the gold era of the 1850s in Australia and California. But these images were largely shaped decades later, by writers such as Henry Lawson and Bret Harte - they speak of later nostalgia rather than the experience of the time." "In this study of the contemporary response to the discoveries of gold in Victoria and California, David Goodman argues that people at the time were apprehensive about gold rushing, and the kind of society it seemed to prefigure. In the chaos of the gold rushes, individual self-interest seemed to be all that could motivate people to any exertion. And it was only the economic rationalists of the day - those who believed in political economy and its promise, that out of the confusion of individual self-interest would come some sort of social order - who could wholeheartedly endorse the gold rushes as events." "This is a history of the ways people talked about gold. As the first full-length cultural history of the gold rushes on two continents, it examines the meanings of gold at the time, and the narratives which were told about social disruption. It locates the deeper underlying themes in the response to gold. It also looks at the ways in which the dominant later memories of gold were shaped. And it is about national differences, about the construction of distinctive national cultures out of materials common to the British world. This book should be read not only by Australian and American historians but by anyone with an interest in the cultural history of modernity."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The California Gold Discovery
Author: Rodman Wilson Paul
Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"The most comprehensive book ever published on the California gold discovery, containing a detailed mass of accounts and sources relating to that momentous event, by one of the outstanding authorities in the field. All known accounts by the participants in the gold discovery are here, including variant accounts, by Marshall, Bigler, Brown, and Wimmer, plus the related testimony of Capt. Sutter. biographical and critical notes by Rodman Paul accompany each of the accounts."--Amazon.com
Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"The most comprehensive book ever published on the California gold discovery, containing a detailed mass of accounts and sources relating to that momentous event, by one of the outstanding authorities in the field. All known accounts by the participants in the gold discovery are here, including variant accounts, by Marshall, Bigler, Brown, and Wimmer, plus the related testimony of Capt. Sutter. biographical and critical notes by Rodman Paul accompany each of the accounts."--Amazon.com
Mark Twain Day by Day: 1835-1885
Author: David H. Fears
Publisher: Horizon Micro Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
Book Description
Publisher: Horizon Micro Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
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A Great Collection of Original Source Material Relating to the Early West and the Far West
Author: Anderson Galleries, Inc
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Category : Northwest, Old
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Northwest, Old
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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