Around the Horn to the Sandwich Islands and California, 1845-1850
Around the Horn to the Sandwich Islands and California, 1845-1850

Author: Chester Smith 1814-1890 Lyman

Publisher: Hassell Street Press

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9781013382475

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We the Miners
We the Miners

Author: Andrea G. McDowell

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2022-06-28

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0674248112

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The California Gold Rush is thought to exemplify the Wild West, yet miners were expert organizers. Driven by property interests, they enacted mining codes, held criminal trials, and decided claim disputes. But democracy and law did not extend to “foreigners” and Indians, and miners were hesitant to yield power to the state that formed around them.

San Francisco, 1846-1856
San Francisco, 1846-1856

Author: Roger W. Lotchin

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780252066313

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Kathleen Gregory Klein traces female paid, professional private investigators in British, Canadian, and American novels, revealing that the detective novel is both a reflection of and potential barrier to social change for women. This edition adds sixty new female private eyes to the roster and includes an afterword that assesses the current state of the genre's new and old novels. A comprehensive bibliography and a character list update the field through mid-1994.

William Perkins's Journal of Life at Sonora, 1849 - 1852
William Perkins's Journal of Life at Sonora, 1849 - 1852

Author: William Perkins

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2021-05-28

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 0520367979

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1964.