Pioneer Days in California
Author: John Carr
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Published: 1891
Total Pages: 460
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor came West in 1850 during Gold Rush; describes life in California between 1850 and 1890.
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Pioneer Days in California
Author: John Carr
Publisher:
Published: 1891
Total Pages: 466
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor came West in 1850 during Gold Rush; describes life in California between 1850 and 1890.
Pioneer Days in California (Classic Reprint)
Author: John Carr
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-10-17
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780265415504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Pioneer Days in California First experience in mining - The frightened Chinaman. - Foreigners' mining license - A foreigner from Pike - Helping the under-dog in a fight - Fighting Sheriffs - Hunting for new diggings. - The ants and the graybacks. - Georgetown. - Missouri gulch. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Pioneer Days in the Black Hills
Author: John S. McClintock
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780806131917
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPioneer Days in the Black Hills is a rough-and-tumble account of the early days of Deadwood, Dakota Territory. In 1874, after leading an expedition into the Black Hills, George Armstrong Custer announced that he had found gold "among the roots of the grass." Almost overnight a number of settlements sprang into existence. Among them was Deadwood. In April 1876, John S. McClintock arrived in search of gold. Entering a series of speculations and employments that won him moderate prosperity, he made Deadwood his home. During his later years, he wrote his memoirs, presented here for the first time in half a century.
A Catalogue of the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana
Author: Colton Storm
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 894
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 396
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistoric Spots in California
Author: Douglas E. Kyle
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2002-09-06
Total Pages: 2302
ISBN-13: 0804778175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe only complete guide to the historical landmarks of California, this standard work has now been thoroughly revised and updated. The edition is enriched by some 200 photographs, most of which were taken by the reviser and all of which are new to this edition. Since the last revision in 1990, enormous changes have taken place within the state: many landscapes and buildings have been greatly altered and some are no longer in existence. Every effort has been made, through personal observation, to record the present condition of the landmarks and to provide clear and accurate descriptions of their locations. The text is written with the idea that the reader might use the book while traveling around the state, and thus mileage and signposts have been given where it was thought helpful. For this new edition, the reviser has added additional information on the state's geography, the presence of Native Americans, and state and local museums. To provide historical background, the reviser has written a short historical overview. The chapters of the book are organized by county, in alphabetical order. A rough chronology is followed for each county, beginning with pertinent facts on geography, continuing with Native American life, the coming of the Spaniards and other Europeans, the American conquest of the 1840s, and, in those areas where it had a major impact, the gold rush. The text then continues into the period of intensive agricultural development, railroads, industrialization, the growth of cities, the effects of World War II, and on into more recent times. The bibliography, like the text, has been updated to 2001 and includes some of the established classics in California history as well as more recent material. Reviews of the Fourth Edition "Prodigious in detail and scope, this is the definitive guide to historical landmarks in California and a valuable resource not only for travelers but also for anyone interested in California history." —California Highways "This is an outstanding and accessible piece of scholarship, one that every student of California will value." —San Francisco Chronicle "Kyle and Stanford University Press are to be lauded for this monumental undertaking." —Southern California Quarterly
Zion in the Courts
Author: Edwin Brown Firmage
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780252069802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe inability of American society to tolerate the peculiar institutions embraced by Mormons was one of the major events in the religious history of nineteenth-century America. Zion in the Courts explores one aspect of this collision between the Mormons and the mainstream: the Mormons' efforts to establish their own court system--one appropriate to the distinctive political, social, and economic practices they envisioned as Zion--and the pressures applied by the federal legal system to bring them to heel. This first paperback edition includes two new introductory pieces in which the authors discuss the Mormon emphasis on settling disputes outside the court, a practice that foreshadows current trends toward arbitration and mediation.
A History of California and an Extended History of Los Angeles and Environs
Author: James Miller Guinn
Publisher:
Published: 1915
Total Pages: 676
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAntebellum American Women Writers and the Road
Author: Susan L. Roberson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-07-26
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1136888659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of American women’s narratives of mobility and travel, this book examines how geographic movement opened up other movements or mobilities for antebellum women at a time of great national expansion. Concerned with issues of personal and national identity, the study demonstrates how women not only went out on the open road, but participated in public discussions of nationhood in the texts they wrote. Roberson examines a variety of narratives and subjects, including not only traditional travel narratives of voyages to the West or to foreign locales, but also the ways travel and movement figured in autobiography, spiritual, and political narratives, and domestic novels by women as they constructed their own politics of mobility. These narratives by such women as Margaret Fuller, Susan Warner, and Harriet Beecher Stowe destabilize the male-dominated stories of American travel and nation-building as women claimed the public road as a domain in which they belonged, bringing with them their own ideas about mobility, self, and nation. The many women’s stories of mobility also destabilize a singular view of women’s history and broaden our outlook on geographic movement and its repercussions for other movements. Looking at texts not usually labeled travel writing, like the domestic novel, brings to light social relations enacted on the road and the relation between story, location, and mobility.
