Little Known Tales In California History

Author : Alton Pryor
Publisher : Stagecoach Pub
ISBN 13 : 0966005317
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Known Tales in California History written by Alton Pryor and published by Stagecoach Pub. This book was released on 1997 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has 41 different chapters on California's gold rush and development history. Read about The Lost Spanish Galleon, Pegleg Smith's Lost Gold Mine, Joaquin Murrieta, and railroad titans.

Author : Alton Pryor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692267042
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Known Tales in Sacramento History written by Alton Pryor and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Sutter, who left Switzerland to escape debtor's prison, came to California and built a giant land monopoly. Again, he became heavily in debt and died destitute. The entire Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys were inundated for 300 miles long and 20 miles wide by the flood of 1862. The cholera epidemic killed more than 1,000 citizens, including doctors and others who were caring for the patients. The Old City Cemetery is an exciting place. As docents are quick to remind, "People are dying to get in here." The docents know their job. It's almost as though they are trying to bring the city's cemeteries back to life. We love the epitaph on one headstone that simply reads: "See ya later."

Author : Alton Pryor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780966005301
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Little Known Tales in California History written by Alton Pryor and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel the Old Plank Road, or take a trip on the old Ridge Route over the Grapevine Grade. They were once treacherous but have been replaced by modern highways, Or, you might want to look through the eyes of two visionaries who knew what California needed and went to work to do it.The second worst disaster in California was the breaking of the St. Francis Dam, killing 450 people. And, readers will learn why the California poppie was selected as the official state flower.

Author : Alton Pryor
Publisher : Stagecoach Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780692244784
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Known Tales in San Francisco History written by Alton Pryor and published by Stagecoach Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco grew from a tiny burg of 1,000 persons in 1848 to its present-day population of 825,863. The city was founded in 1776 when Spain built a fort at the site of Golden Gate Park. After World War II, San Francisco became a magnet for America's counter-culture. Hippies flocked to Haight-Ashbury in 1960 and peaked out with the Summer of Love in 1967. San Francisco's China Town is the oldest and largest in North America. The city's famous cable cars carry riders up and down the steep inclines and to Fisherman's Wharf below. People watch as the fishermen bring in their daily catches each day at the piers of Fisherman's Wharf.. There's little that can't be found in San Francisco. The city's ethnic makeup is diverse. It's made up of whites, Asians, Afro-Americans, Pacific Islanders, and Hispanics. San Francisco has developed an international character that began with its founding and continues today.

Author : Alton Pryor
Publisher : Stagecoach Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780974755106
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Known Tales in Nevada History written by Alton Pryor and published by Stagecoach Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reader should not be conned into thinking Nevada is only desert and casinos. Nevada gained its statehood because of its incredible wealth in gold and silver mines. Many mining towns in Nevada are now ghost towns but interesting pieces of Nevada's history and well worth a visit. The state's geology dates back to the Stone Age and its tales of train robberies, lynchings and Indian battles are all explored here in this book.

Author : Alton Pryor
Publisher : Stagecoach Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780966005325
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classic Tales in California History written by Alton Pryor and published by Stagecoach Pub. This book was released on 1999 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women discovered gold in California a full year before James Marshall announced his discovery. There have been repeated attempts to split California into two or more states. Wheelbarrow Johnny was one of the gold seekers who came west searching for gold. Instead, he built wheelbarrows and then went on to become one of the nation's great automobile magnates.

Author : Frank Oppel
Publisher : Book Sales Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781555215385
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of Old California written by Frank Oppel and published by Book Sales Inc. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with hundreds of original plates, this volume is a collection of 33 different articles, essays, and stories ranging from the years 1875 to 1912.

Author : Donovan Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780942087062
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pioneers of California written by Donovan Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gary Noy
Publisher : Heyday.ORIM
ISBN 13 : 1597145041
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hellacious California! written by Gary Noy and published by Heyday.ORIM. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Teems with bittersweet compounds of 19th-century nefariousness, including . . . gambling, knife fights, the demon drink, con artistry, and prostitution.” —Los Angeles Review of Books In 1855 an ex-miner lamented that nineteenth-century California “can and does furnish the best bad things,” including “purer liquors . . . finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtezans [sic]” than anywhere else in America. Lured by boons of gold and other exploitable resources, California’s settler population mushroomed under Mexican and early American control, and this period of rapid transformation gave rise to a freewheeling culture best epitomized by its entertainments. Hellacious California tours the rambunctious and occasionally appalling amusements of the Golden State: gambling, gun duels, knife fights, gracious dining and gluttony, prostitution, fandangos, cigars, con artistry, and the demon drink. Historian Gary Noy unearths myriad primary sources, many of which have never before been published, to spin his true tall tales that are by turns humorous and horrifying. Whether detailing the exploits of an inebriated stallion, gambling parlors as a reinforcement and subversion of racial norms, armed skirmishes over eggs, or the ins and outs of the “Spirit Lover” scam, Noy expertly situates these stories in the context of a live-for-the-moment society characterized by audacity, bigotry, and risk. “Confidently carries the reader into the everyday lives of early Californians. The focus on Californians’ popular pastimes . . . with an eye on vice, decadence, and scandal, makes this book a rowdy tour.” —Dr. Patrick Ettinger, Professor of History, California State University, Sacramento; Former Director of CSUS Public History Program and the Capital Campus Oral History Program

Author : Mrs. Fremont Older
Publisher : Books for Libraries
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Stories of Old California written by Mrs. Fremont Older and published by Books for Libraries. This book was released on 1971 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semi-fictionized stories of Spanish California.