Notes of a Voyage to California Via Cape Horn
Notes of a Voyage to California Via Cape Horn

Author: Samuel Curtis Upham

Publisher: Philadelphia :$[s.n.]

Published: 1878

Total Pages: 606

ISBN-13:

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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.

Squatter's Republic
Squatter's Republic

Author: Tamara Venit Shelton

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2013-11-22

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0520289099

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Who should have the right to own land, and how much of it? A Squatter's Republic follows the rise and fall of the land question in the Gilded AgeÑand the rise and fall of a particularly nineteenth-century vision of landed independence. More specifically, the author considers the land question through the anti-monopolist reform movements it inspired in late nineteenth-century California. The Golden State was a squatter's republicÑa society of white men who claimed no more land than they could use, and who promised to uphold agrarian republican ideals and resist monopoly, the nemesis of democracy. Their opposition to land monopoly became entwined with public discourse on Mexican land rights, industrial labor relations, immigration from China, and the rise of railroad and other corporate monopolies.

The Gold Rush Diary of Ram¢n Gil Navarro
The Gold Rush Diary of Ram¢n Gil Navarro

Author: Ram¢n Gil Navarro

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9780803233430

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"Navarro encountered people from all over the world brought together in a society marked by racial and ethnic intolerance, swift and cruel justice, and great hardships. It was a world of contrasts, where the roughest of the rough lived in close proximity to extremely refined cultural circles."--BOOK JACKET.

The Genealogist's Virtual Library
The Genealogist's Virtual Library

Author: Thomas Jay Kemp

Publisher: Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780842028646

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The growing availability of full-text books and journals on the Internet has made vast amounts of valuable genealogical information available at the touch of a button. The Genealogist's Virtual Library is a new volume that directs readers to the sites on the web that contain the full text of books.