Up And Down California In 1860 1864

Author : William H. Brewer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520238657
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Up and Down California in 1860 1864 written by William H. Brewer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These warmly affectionate letters, presented here in their entirety, paint a vivid picture of California in the mid-nineteenth century, describing the new state in all its spectacular beauty."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : William Henry Brewer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520027626
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Up and Down California in 1860-1864 written by William Henry Brewer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journal seems to contain information for everyone regardless of one's interest...Each page of this almost six hundred page journal is crammed with facts and descriptions. So much of interest is contained in every entry that each re-reading will reveal many interesting incidents or observations not quite grasped on the first perusal....This book will be a valuable source to all students of California or United States history and to the casual readers as well.

Author : William Henry Brewer
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Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Up and Down California in 1860-1864 written by William Henry Brewer and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Henry Brewer (1828-1910) was a professor of chemistry at Washington College in Pennsylvania when he joined the staff of California's first State Geologist, Josiah Dwight Whitney, 1860-1864. On returning east, Brewer became Professor of Agriculture at Yale, a post he held for nearly forty years. Up and down California (1930) collects Brewer's letters and journal entries recording his work with Whitney's geological survey of California, chronicling not merely the survey's scientific work but the social, agricultural, and economic life of the state from south to north as the survey's men passed along.

Author : William Henry Brewer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Up and Down California in 1860-1864 written by William Henry Brewer and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walter Colton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Years in California written by Walter Colton and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francis Peloubet Farquhar
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520015517
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Sierra Nevada written by Francis Peloubet Farquhar and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Panorama of human experiences in California's "great snowy range", including the Yosemite, Mt. Whitney, and Lake Tahoe areas, from its sighting by Spaniards to the present.

Author : R. H. Bruce Lockhart
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1848326297
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a British Agent written by R. H. Bruce Lockhart and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2011-04-30 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When first published in 1932, this memoir was an immediate classic, both as a unique eyewitness account of Revolutionary Russia and as one man’s story of struggle, and tragedy set against the background of great events. Aged 25, Lockhart became the British Vice-Consul to Moscow in 1912. With revolution in the air, it was dangerous, decadent posting. The 'Boy Ambassador' became an eyewitness to pivotal events and in 1918 was charged with establishing a diplomatic understanding with the Bolsheviks, to ensure that Russia remained in the war against Germany. It was a precarious mission: Whitehall could not be seen support revolutionaries; Lockhart grew wary of his masters’ secret machinations; while Lenin and Trotsky's cordial relations with the British agent never quite dispelled their mistrust of the nation he represented. When Lockhart met Moura Budberg, who became the great love of his life, he was in an increasingly vulnerable position. In September 1918 he would be falsely accused of a counter-revolutionary plot to overthrow the Bolsheviks, and sent to the Loubianka. His account even inspired a Hollywood movie. From his evocative descriptions of revolutionary Moscow, where the champagne flowed as the bourgeoisie trembled, to his audiences with Trotsky and his brushes with death, this is a vivid, unique memoir.

Author : Robert S. Ove
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890967744
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geronimo's Kids written by Robert S. Ove and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Through the stories of the elders, he also learned how this way of life had changed since their capture, as many of the traditional ways of the Chiricahuas were altered or lost in the ensuing decades after Geronimo's people surrendered to the U.S. Army in 1886. Decades of incarceration followed - first in Florida, then in Alabama, and finally in Oklahoma. More than half died in hot, humid prison camps because the Chiricahuas had no inborn resistance to the virulent diseases brought to North America by Europeans. Then in 1913, with fewer than three hundred left, the Chiricahuas were released and received land allotments near their last prison site, Fort Sill, or on the Mescalero Apache Reservation where Ove arrived thirty-five years later."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780374706029
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assembling California written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally intersect—in the gold disruptions of the nineteenth century no less than in the earthquakes of the twentieth—and always with relevance to a newly understood geologic history in which half a dozen large and separate pieces of country are seen to have drifted in from far and near to coalesce as California. McPhee and Moores also journeyed to remote mountains of Arizona and to Cyprus and northern Greece, where rock of the deep-ocean floor has been transported into continental settings, as it has in California. Global in scope and a delight to read, Assembling California is a sweeping narrative of maps in motion, of evolving and dissolving lands.

Author : Edgar Johnson
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charles Dickens written by Edgar Johnson and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1979 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly biography of the author.