Author: Thomas N. Layton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780804729093
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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Describes the role of American ships in the opium trade

Author: William Henry G. Kingston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Author: George Washington De Long
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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The ship and ice journals of George W. De Long, lieutenant-commander U. S. N., and commander of the Polar expedition of 1879-1881.

Author: George Washington De Long
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108050182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 497

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These two volumes, published in 1883, document the doomed Polar expedition of George W. De Long (1844-81). Compiled by his wife from his journals and the testimony of the survivors, Volume 2 records the ship's wreckage, the crew's escape in smaller boats, and the discovery of De Long's remains.

Author: De Long
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508

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Author: David Igler
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199914958
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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A groundbreaking and lyrically written work that explores the world of the Pacific Ocean.

Author: Frank H. Baumgardner
Publisher: Algora Publishing
ISBN: 0875868037
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Yanks in the Redwoods tells the story of the exploration and settlement of the Northwest, focusing on a one-hundred-mile region of the Mendocino Coast, 70 miles north of San Francisco. Covering the period of 18001900, the book presents several never-before-published accounts by participants. The founders of the Humboldt Bay Community are seen through the eyes of George Gibbs, Customs Collector, Astoria, OR. A unique look at the Oregon Trail, derived from the notes jotted down by Jesse Applegate and Stanley and Clarissa Taylor, debunks the Hollywood image of the hostile Indian. Sparely-written diary entries convey the pungent flavors and kernels of wisdom squeezed out of a life of hard work in a family timber business and the almost speechless surprise when corporations quickly moved in and muscled the founders out of their own enterprises. The book contains personal accounts by John Work, leader of the Hudson Bay Co. Expedition to the North Coast, and by Jerome and Emily Ford, founders of the Mendocino Lumber Co., and the fraud investigation of Thomas J. Henley. It tells of the founding of Mendocino and Ft. Bragg, the experiences of the Chinese community, the role of "Dog Hole" schooners, and the opium trade. The book concludes with excerpts from the diary of Etta Stephens Pullen, a pioneer who relocated from Maine to Little River, California, and the transcript of an interview with Lucy Young, a Wailaki-Lassik Indian telling the grim story of genocide that was going on coincidental with events in Etta Pullen's diary. Never before has this coastal segment of Northern California been studied in a comprehensive historical book. All of the earliest participant groups, Indians, Yankees and immigrants from the Midwestern and Southern states, northern European immigrants and Chinese, are presented. Wherever possible excerpts from primary sources, written by the people who made this history, are directly quoted. This work will become an example for other Northwest coastal regions to tell their own stories for later generations to enjoy.

Author: Emma De Long
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478

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Author: John Davis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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Author: Thomas N. Layton
Publisher: New England Merchants and the
ISBN: 9780804738491
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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The subsequent lives of those intimately associated with the Frolic are profiled. The owners' families preferred to forget the source of their fortunes, and prior to her death in 1942, the daughter of the Frolic's captain burned her father's papers to preserve his reputation.