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Book/Printed MaterialTis-sa-ack and Tu-tock-ah-nu-lah. A tale of Yosemite valley, California, Also available in digital form.
- Contributor: Standish, Stella Vienna
- Date: 1894
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Book/Printed MaterialRanch life in California. Extracted from the home correspondence of E.M.H. The author, Evelyn M.H., was a young Englishwoman who accompanied her husband and his two brothers to California in 1885. Ranch life in California (1886) is based on her letters home, beginning...
- Contributor: Hertslet, Evelyn M.
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialMarshall's gold discovery: a lecture (the fourth of the sixth annual course of Lick lectures) Also available in digital form.
- Contributor: Society of California Pioneers - Hittell, John S. (John Shertzer)
- Date: 1893
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Book/Printed MaterialLetters of travel in California, in the winter and spring of 1896, Loraine Pratt Immen (b. 1840) of Grand Rapids, Iowa, visited California in the winter and spring of 1896. Letters of travel (1896?) first appeared in a local newspaper. Mrs. Immen reported visits...
- Contributor: Immen, Loraine Pratt
- Date: 1896-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialMemorial of John A. Sutter to the Senate and House of representatives of the United States, ... The memorial asks compensation for loss of land grants in California resulting from the American occupation. Also available in digital form.
- Contributor: Sutter, John Augustus
- Date: 1876
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Book/Printed MaterialThe life and times of Gen'l John A. Sutter Also available in digital form.
- Contributor: Schoonover, T. J. (Thomas J.)
- Date: 1895
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Book/Printed MaterialThe romance of the age; or, the discovery of gold in California. Also available in digital form.
- Contributor: Dunbar, Edward E. (Edward Ely)
- Date: 1867
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Book/Printed MaterialHappy days in southern California, Frederick Hastings Rindge (1857-1905) moved from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles in 1882 and bought the famed rancho at Malibu, which he dubbed "Laudamus Farm." Happy days in southern California (1898) opens...
- Contributor: Rindge, Frederick Hastings
- Date: 1898-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialCalifornia notes. Charles Beebe Turrill (1854-1927) was a California historian and promoter. California notes (1876) is a guide for travellers, offering details of the state's weather, geology, and vegetation as well as recommended travel...
- Contributor: Turrill, Charles B. (Charles Beebe)
- Date: 1876-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe new empire and her representative men; or, The Pacific coast, its farms, mines, vines, wines, ... Also available in digital form.
- Contributor: Hamilton, Wilson
- Date: 1886
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Book/Printed MaterialCamping out in California. Mrs. Jacob Rideout of California was a member of an 1888 camping party in northern California. Camping out in California (1889) describes their adventures at the redwood forests, the coast near Mendocino,...
- Contributor: Rideout, J. B.
- Date: 1889-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialReport of the Committee on medical topography, meteorology, endemics and epidemics, made to the Medical society ... Also available in digital form.
- Contributor: California Medical Association. Committee on Medical Topography, Meteorology, Endemics and Epidemics - Chipman, Marshall Mead
- Date: 1883
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Book/Printed MaterialWomen's silk culture association. Also available in digital form.
- Contributor: Neumann, Joseph - United States. Department of Agriculture - Women's Silk Culture Association - Ladies' Silk Culture Society of California
- Date: 1890
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Book/Printed MaterialAdmission of California, Also available in digital form.
- Contributor: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
- Date: 1850
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Book/Printed MaterialBeyond the Rockies; a spring journey in California, Charles Augustus Stoddard (1833-1920), a Presbyterian clergyman, was the editor of the New York Observer, 1885-1902. Beyond the Rockies (1894) recounts his train trip to California with his wife in early 1893....
- Contributor: Stoddard, Charles Augustus
- Date: 1894-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialCalifornia names and their literal meanings, Also available in digital form.
- Contributor: Drake, C. M.
- Date: 1893
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Book/Printed MaterialAll about California and the inducements to settle there Title vignette "California as a home for the emigrant ... By John S. Hittell.": p. [7]-40 Also available in digital form.
- Contributor: Hittell, John S. (John Shertzer) - California Immigrant Union
- Date: 1875
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Book/Printed MaterialAll about California, and the inducements to settle there ... Index on verso of front cover. "California as a home for the emigrant ... By John S. Hittell": p. [7]-40. "Lands of the Central Pacific railroad": p. at end. Also available in...
- Contributor: Hittell, John S. (John Shertzer) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - California Immigrant Union
- Date: 1870
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Book/Printed MaterialThe sunset land; or, The great Pacific slope John Todd (1800-1873), a Congregationalist clergyman in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, wrote widely and published several religious magazines. The sunset land (1870) contains Todd's experiences as a visitor to California in the mid 1860s,...
- Contributor: Todd, John
- Date: 1870
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Book/Printed MaterialTo California and back; Also available in digital form.
- Contributor: Higgins, C. A. (Charles A.) - Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
- Date: 1893
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Book/Printed MaterialThe narrative of a Japanese; what he has seen and the people he has met in ... Joseph Heco (1837-1897), a native of the province of Sanyodo, went to sea in 1850. When his ship was dismasted, he and other members of the crew were rescued by an American...
- Contributor: Heco, Joseph
- Date: 1895-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialPersonal reminiscences of early days in California : with other sketches
Early days in California Born in Connecticut, Stephen Johnson Field (1816-1899) was practicing law in New York City when word of the Gold Rush arrived. He sailed to California in 1849, crossing Panama at Chagres. He...- Contributor: Field, Stephen J. (Stephen Johnson)
- Date: 1880-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialMisrepresentations of early California history corrected. Also available in digital form.
- Contributor: Society of California Pioneers
- Date: 1894
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Book/Printed MaterialThe new West; or, California in 1867-1868.
California in 1867-1868 Also available in digital form. LAC ael 2020-10-08 update (1 card)- Contributor: Brace, Charles Loring - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1869
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Book/Printed MaterialA winter in California. Mary H. Wills left Norristown, Pennsylvania, to spend the winter of 1888-1889 in Southern California. A winter in California (1889) describes the highlights of her stay: visits to Pasadena, Los Angeles, Santa...
- Contributor: Wills, Mary H.
- Date: 1889-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe mountains of California Famed naturalist John Muir (1838-1914) came to Wisconsin as a boy and studied at the University of Wisconsin. He first came to California in 1868 and devoted six years to the study...
- Contributor: Muir, John
- Date: 1894
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Silverado squatters, Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) traveled to California in 1879 in pursuit of Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne, the Oakland woman with whom he had fallen in love in France. The two were...
- Contributor: Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Date: 1888-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialCalifornia, in-doors and out; or, How we farm, mine, and live generally in the Golden State.
California, in-doors and out | How we farm, mine, and live generally in the Golden State During her three years as matron of the Female Prison at Sing Sing, 1844-1848, Eliza Burhans Farnham (1815-1864) tried to institute reforms based on phrenology. Discharged from the post, she soon learned...- Contributor: Farnham, Eliza W. (Eliza Wood)
- Date: 1856-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe adventures of a forty-niner. An historic description of California, with events and ideas of San ...
Days of the forty-niners An Albany, New York, physician, Daniel Knower (b. ca. 1818) sailed for California in 1849 with twelve prefabricated frame houses for the San Francisco market. The adventures of a forty-niner (1894) describes...- Contributor: Knower, Daniel
- Date: 1894-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialMineral springs and health resorts of California, with a complete chemical analysis of every important mineral ... "Annual prize of the Medical Society of the State of California, awarded April 20, 1889." Microfilmed for preservation Also available in digital form.
- Contributor: Anderson, Winslow
- Date: 1890
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Book/Printed MaterialThe truth and the wine interest! Also available in digital form.
- Contributor: Wood, A. D.
- Date: 1883
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Book/Printed MaterialThe gold seekers. A tale of California. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Replace; LC copy replaced by preservation microfilm
- Contributor: Aimard, Gustave - St. John, Percy B. (Percy Bolingbroke)
- Date: 1888-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialLiterary industries. A memoir. Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832-1918) moved to California from Buffalo, New York, in 1852. After a brief exposure to gold mining, he returned to the profession of bookselling, setting up shop in Crescent...
- Contributor: Bancroft, Hubert Howe - Nemos, William
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThree years in California [1846-1849] Walter Colton (1797-1851) of Vermont had a career as clergyman and journalist before sailing to California as naval chaplain of the Congress. In July 1846, Commodore Stockton named him alcalde of Monterey,...
- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Colton, Walter
- Date: 1850-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialMineral springs and health resorts of California, with a complete chemical analysis of every important mineral ... "Authorities": p. [iv] Also available in digital form.
- Contributor: Anderson, Winslow
- Date: 1892
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Book/Printed MaterialBetween the gates. Benjamin Franklin Taylor (1819-1887) won renown as a war correspondent for Chicago newspapers during the Civil War. In peacetime he became a freelance writer best known as a poet. Between the gates...
- Contributor: Taylor, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin)
- Date: 1878-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialOur Italy, Famed essayist and journalist Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900) was the editor of the Hartford, Connecticut, Courant and a contributing editor to Harper's Magazine. Our Italy (1891) is Warner's account of a trip...
- Contributor: Warner, Charles Dudley
- Date: 1891-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialOff to California : a tale of the gold country Also available in digital form.
- Contributor: Cobb, James F. (James Francis) - Conscience, Hendrik
- Date: 1885
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Book/Printed MaterialNotes of two trips to California and return, taken in 1883 and 1886-7, Solomon Mead (1808-1897) of Greenwich, Connecticut, first visited California in 1883 as part of a Cook's railroad tour, the "Continental Excursion Party," and he returned with one of his sons in 1886...
- Contributor: Mead, Solomon
- Date: 1890-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialOver the purple hills, or Sketches of travel in California, embracing all the important points usually ... Caroline M. Nichols Churchill (b. 1833) first came to California from Chicago in 1870. Over the purple hills (1881) continues her tales of California begun in "Little Sheaves" (1874), beginning with an...
- Contributor: Churchill, Caroline M. Nichols
- Date: 1881-01-01