Life, Travels, and Adventures in California, and Scenes in the Pacific Ocean
Author: Thomas Jefferson Farnham
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Published: 1847
Total Pages: 438
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Life, Travels, and Adventures in California, and Scenes in the Pacific Ocean
Author: Thomas Jefferson Farnham
Publisher: Sagwan Press
Published: 2015-08-22
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9781296938956
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Life and Adventures in California, and Scenes in the Pacific Ocean
Author: Thomas Jefferson Farnham
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Published: 1847
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSecond edition, second printing of Farnham's account of California travel, first published in 1844 as Travels in the Californias, and scences in the Pacific Ocean (New York, 1844-1845), issued in four parts. This is the second edition under this new title, following the first which appeared in 1846. There were many revised, enlarged, and re-worked issues under a variety of titles; the 1850 edition extended to 514 pages. In 1839 Farnham was living in Peoria, Illinois, where he heard Jason Lee lecture on the Oregon mission Lee had founded. Subsequently Farnham led the Peoria Party to Oregon, where Farnham petitioned the U.S. government to annex Oregon to defend the interests of Americans in the area. Farnham's account of this phase of his travels was published as Travels in Oregon Territory (1842). Farnham then embarked on a voyage to the Sandwich Islands, and then to Monterey in California, arriving April 18, 1840. He became involved in the Graham Affair, and travelled to Baja California to secure the release of American, British, and Californio citizens who had been arrested by Governor Juan Alvarado for plotting a revolt against the Mexican government. These adventures, including historical sections on Baja California and the recent history of Alta California, are contained in the text of this volume, which is also a sequel to Travels in Oregon Territory.
Life And Adventures In California, And Scenes In The Pacific Ocean
Author: Thomas J Farnham
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2023-07-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781020109768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJoin adventurer Thomas J. Farnham on his epic journey to the Pacific coast of America, where he braved untold dangers and hardships in search of fame and fortune. From the bustling cities of Gold Rush-era California to the uncharted waters of the Pacific, Farnham's thrilling memoir is an unforgettable tribute to the spirit of American exploration and adventure. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
An American Genocide
Author: Benjamin Madley
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016-05-24
Total Pages: 709
ISBN-13: 0300182171
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 1846 and 1873, California’s Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the violence, indigenous resistance, who did the killing, and why the killings ended. This deeply researched book is a comprehensive and chilling history of an American genocide. Madley describes pre-contact California and precursors to the genocide before explaining how the Gold Rush stirred vigilante violence against California Indians. He narrates the rise of a state-sanctioned killing machine and the broad societal, judicial, and political support for genocide. Many participated: vigilantes, volunteer state militiamen, U.S. Army soldiers, U.S. congressmen, California governors, and others. The state and federal governments spent at least $1,700,000 on campaigns against California Indians. Besides evaluating government officials’ culpability, Madley considers why the slaughter constituted genocide and how other possible genocides within and beyond the Americas might be investigated using the methods presented in this groundbreaking book.
The Californios
Author: Hunt Janin
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2017-10-12
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1476629463
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBefore the Gold Rush of 1848-1858, Alta (Upper) California was an isolated cattle frontier--and home to a colorful group of Spanish-speaking, non-indigenous people known as Californios. Profiting from the forced labor of large numbers of local Indians, they carved out an almost feudal way of life, raising cattle along the California coast and valleys. Visitors described them as a good-looking, vibrant, improvident people. Many traces of their culture remain in California. Yet their prosperity rested entirely on undisputed ownership of large ranches. As they lost control of these in the wake of the Mexican War, they lost their high status and many were reduced to subsistence-level jobs or fell into abject poverty. Drawing on firsthand contemporary accounts, the authors chronicle the rise and fall of Californio men and women.
Forgotten Dead
Author: William D. Carrigan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-04-19
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0199911800
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMob violence in the United States is usually associated with the southern lynch mobs who terrorized African Americans during the Jim Crow era. In Forgotten Dead, William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb uncover a comparatively neglected chapter in the story of American racial violence, the lynching of persons of Mexican origin or descent. Over eight decades lynch mobs murdered hundreds of Mexicans, mostly in the American Southwest. Racial prejudice, a lack of respect for local courts, and economic competition all fueled the actions of the mob. Sometimes ordinary citizens committed these acts because of the alleged failure of the criminal justice system; other times the culprits were law enforcement officers themselves. Violence also occurred against the backdrop of continuing tensions along the border between the United States and Mexico aggravated by criminal raids, military escalation, and political revolution. Based on Spanish and English archival documents from both sides of the border, Forgotten Dead explores through detailed case studies the characteristics and causes of mob violence against Mexicans across time and place. It also relates the numerous acts of resistance by Mexicans, including armed self-defense, crusading journalism, and lobbying by diplomats who pressured the United States to honor its rhetorical commitment to democracy. Finally, it contains the first-ever inventory of Mexican victims of mob violence in the United States. Carrigan and Webb assess how Mexican lynching victims came in the minds of many Americans to be the "forgotten dead" and provide a timely account of Latinos' historical struggle for recognition of civil and human rights.
American Travellers Abroad
Author: Harold Frederick Smith
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780810835542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDemonstrates that US travelers abroad were not limited to the rich and privileged even in previous centuries, by presenting over 2,000 titles with full bibliographic citations and brief evaluative descriptions. Arranged alphabetically by author and indexed by place and author's occupation. Updated from the 1969 edition with titles subsequently discovered. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Sanctioning Matrimony
Author: Sal Acosta
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2016-05-12
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0816533768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarriage, divorce, birth, baptism, and census records are the essential records of a community. Through them we see who marries, who divorces, and how many children are born. Sal Acosta has studied a broad base of these vital records to produce the largest quantitative study of intermarriage of any group in the West. Sanctioning Matrimony examines intermarriage in the Tucson area between 1860 and 1930. Unlike previous studies on intermarriage, this book examines not only intermarriages of Mexicans with whites but also their unions with blacks and Chinese. Following the Treaty of Mesilla (1853), interethnic relationships played a significant part in the Southwest. Acosta provides previously unseen archival research on the scope and tenor of interracial marriages in Arizona. Contending that scholarship on intermarriage has focused on the upper classes, Acosta takes us into the world of the working and lower classes and illuminates how church and state shaped the behavior of participants in interracial unions. Marriage practices in Tucson reveal that Mexican women were pivotal in shaping family and social life between 1854 and 1930. Virtually all intermarriages before 1900 were, according to Acosta, between Mexican women and white men, or between Mexican women and blacks or Chinese until the 1920s, illustrating the importance of these women during the transformation of Tucson from a Mexican pueblo to an American town. Acosta’s deep analysis of vital records, census data, and miscegenation laws in Arizona demonstrates how interethnic relationships benefited from and extended the racial fluidity of the Arizona borderlands.
Beyond Black and White
Author: Stephanie Cole
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781585443192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work brings up-to-date perspectives to the oversimplification of racial categories and new insight into the complexity of social relationships in these two important regions. It should be of use to those interested in social activism directed toward racial, ethnic, and gender issues.
