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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 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 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 MaterialChambliss diary; or, Society as it really is.
Society as it really is William H. Chambliss (b. 1865), a Mississippian, came to California as a member of the crew of the U.S. Essex in 1886 and made San Francisco his home base for the next...- Contributor: Chambliss, William H.
- Date: 1895-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings, David Leeper (1832-1900) left South Bend, Indiana, for an overland trip to the California gold fields in February 1849. The argonauts of forty-nine (1894) details Leeper's journey west and his life in...
- Contributor: Leeper, David Rohrer
- Date: 1894