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Book/Printed MaterialThe condition of affairs in Indian Territory and California. A report Charles Cornelius Coffin Painter was an agent of the Indian Rights Association, headquartered in Philadelphia. The condition of affairs in Indian Territory and California (1888) reports Painter's findings at the Seger Colony…- Contributor: Indian Rights Association - Painter, C. C. (Charles Cornelius)
- Date: 1888-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Indians of Los Angeles County: Hugo Reid's letters of 1852. Hugo Reid (1811-1852) left Scotland at the age of eighteen and settled in California in 1832. He married a woman of the Gabrielino tribe and became a rancher near the San Gabriel…- Contributor: Heizer, Robert F. (Robert Fleming) - Reid, Hugo
- Date: 1968-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Indians of southern California in 1852; the B.D. Wilson report and a selection of contemporary … Benjamin Davis Wilson (1811-1878) of Tennessee came to California in 1841, married into the prominent Yorba family, and acquired a vast property, including a ranch that encompassed the site of modern Riverside.…- Contributor: Caughey, John Walton - Lessing J. Rosenwald Reference Collection (Library of Congress) - Wilson, Benjamin Davis
- Date: 1952-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialDiscovery of the Yosemite, and the Indian war of 1851, which led to that event Lafayette Houghton Bunnell (1824-1903) was a member of the Mariposa Battalion that became the white discoverers of the Yosemite Valley in 1851 when they rode out in search of Native American tribal…- Contributor: Bunnell, Lafayette Houghton
- Date: 1892
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Book/Printed MaterialLife on the plains and among the diggings; being scenes and adventures of an overland journey … Born in Aurora, New York, Alonzo Delano (1806-1874) moved on to the Midwest as a teenager. July 1848 found him a consumptive Ottawa, Illinois, storekeeper, and he joined a local California Company.…- Contributor: Delano, Alonzo
- Date: 1857-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialGlimpses of California and the missions, Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) of Amherst, Massachusetts, turned to writing after the death of her first husband in 1863. Her marriage to William Jackson, a wealthy Denver Quaker, brought her to the…- Contributor: Jackson, Helen Hunt
- Date: 1902-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe last of the Mill Creeks, and early life in northern California, Sim Moak (b. 1845) left Albany, New York, to join his older brothers in California in 1863 and settled in the town of Chico. The last of the Mill Creeks (1923) offers…- Contributor: Moak, Sim
- Date: 1923-01-01
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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
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Book/Printed MaterialTouching incidents in the life and labors of a pioneer on the Pacific coast since 1853. Joseph Wilkinson Hines (b. ca. 1824) left New York State in 1853 as a Methodist missionary to Ohio. He later settled in Santa Clara County, California, where he was a prominent Republican…- Contributor: Hines, Joseph Wilkinson
- Date: 1911-01-01
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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 MaterialLetters from California: its mountains, valleys, plains, lakes, rivers, climate and productions. Also its railroads, cities, … David L. Phillips (1823-1880) took his tubercular son to California in 1876 in hope that the change of climate would aid the boy. Letters from California (1877) were originally published in the…- Contributor: Phillips, D. L. (David L.)
- Date: 1877-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialPioneer notes from the diaries of Judge Benjamin Hayes, 1849-1875. Benjamin Ignatius Hayes (1815-1877) was a Maryland lawyer living in Missouri in 1849 when he decided to make the overland journey to California. There he became a leader of the Los Angeles…- Contributor: Wolcott, Marjorie Tisdale - Hayes, Benjamin
- Date: 1929-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe land of little rain, Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) moved with her family from Illinois to the desert on the edge of the San Joaquin Valley in 1888. In the next fifteen years she moved from one…- Contributor: Austin, Mary
- Date: 1903
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Book/Printed MaterialA picture of pioneer times in California, illustrated with anecdotes and stories taken from real life William Francis White (1829-1891?) and his young wife sailed from New York in 1849 round the Horn to San Francisco, where he set up an import business. He later represented Santa Cruz…- Contributor: White, William Francis
- Date: 1881
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Shirley letters from California mines in 1851-52; being a series of twenty-three letters from Dame … Educated in Amherst, Massachusetts, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (1819-1906) accompanied her physician-husband to California in 1849. The couple first lived in mining camps where Dr. Clappe practiced medicine and then moved…- Contributor: Shirley - Russell, Thomas C.
- Date: 1922-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialGolden dreams and waking realities; being the adventures of a gold-seeker in California and the Pacific … An Englishman, William Shaw was in South Australia when he heard of the California gold rush, and he sailed across the Pacific from Adelaide in 1849. Golden dreams and waking realities (1851)…- Contributor: Shaw, William
- Date: 1851-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe land of gold. Reality versus fiction. Hinton Rowan Helper (1829-1909) of North Carolina became one of the South's most controversial figures in the 1850s for his criticisms of slavery in The land of gold and his better known…- Contributor: Helper, Hinton Rowan
- Date: 1855-01-01
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ArticleOther Californians If California was an exciting and hospitable place for newcomers, it no longer served the needs of groups that had lived there before the Gold Rush. Every year, illness and armed skirmishes… -
Book/Printed MaterialA year of American travel. Jessie Benton Frémont (1824-1902), the daughter of a Missouri Senator and wife of explorer John Charles Frémont, first came to California in 1849, when she and her young daughter spent six months…- Contributor: Frémont, Jessie Benton
- Date: 1878-01-01
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ArticleThe First Peoples of California The Spaniards, of course, were hardly the first to discover this land of wonder and extremes. The earliest Californians were adventurous Asians who made their way across the Bering Straits to Alaska… -
Book/Printed MaterialA pioneer at Sutter's fort, 1846-1850; the adventures of Heinrich Lienhard ... Heinrich Lienhard (1822-1903), son of a Swiss farmer, sailed for America in 1843. After three years in the Midwest, Lienhard and four other young European immigrants set off by wagon for California,…- Contributor: Lienhard, Heinrich - Wilbur, Marguerite Eyer
- Date: 1941-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe diary of Johann August Sutter, John Augustus (Johann August) Sutter (1803-1880) left Switzerland for America in 1834. By 1839, he had worked his way west to California, where he became a Mexican citizen and obtained an enormous…- Contributor: Watson, Douglas S. (Douglas Sloane) - Sutter, John Augustus
- Date: 1932-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe life and adventures in California of Don Agustín Janssens, 1834-1856; In 1825, Victor Janssens (1817-1894) and his French-Belgian family sailed to Mexico. Nine years later he joined the Padrés expedition of colonists in California, where he was part of the colony at…- Contributor: Ellison, William H. - Janssens, Agustín - Price, Francis
- Date: 1953-01-01
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ArticleThe Missions After 1769, the life of the California natives who came in contact with the Spanish was reshaped by the mission fathers, not the townspeople of the pueblos or the soldiers of the… -
Book/Printed MaterialScenes of life in California, Friedrich Gerstäcker (1816-1872), a native of Hamburg, left Germany in 1837 for a six-year stay in New York. On his return to Germany, he published two travel memoirs, and the Frankfurt government…- Contributor: Cosgrave, George - Gerstäcker, Friedrich - Revilliod, Gustave
- Date: 1942-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialCalifornia. Four months among the gold-finders, being the diary of an expedition from San Francisco to … Henry Vizetelly (1820-1894), a London engraver and author, was a pioneer in the publication of inexpensive illustrated books and magazines. Edwin Bryant (1805-1869) was a Kentucky journalist before coming to California in…- Contributor: Vizetelly, Henry - Bryant, Edwin
- Date: 1849-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialLife sketches of a jayhawker of '49, Lorenzo Dow Stephens (b. 1827) was born in New Jersey and raised in Illinois, where he joined a party for Califoria in 1849. Life sketches of a jayhawker (1916) begins with Stephens's…- Contributor: Stephens, L. Dow (Lorenzo Dow)
- Date: 1916-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialPersonal recollections. Harvey Wood (1828-1895), a young clerk in a New Jersey store, joined the Kit Carson Association of would-be California miners that set out from New York in February 1849, sailing to Texas…- Contributor: Wood, Harvey
- Date: 1955-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialAddresses, reminiscences, etc. of General John Bidwell. John Bidwell (1819-1900) was born in Chautaugua County, New York, and lived in Ohio when he decided to seek his fortune in California in 1841 and journeyed west as part of the…- Contributor: Royce, Charles C. - Bidwell, John
- Date: 1907-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialEchoes of the past about California, John Bidwell (1819-1900) was born in Chautaugua County, New York, and was living in Ohio when he decided to seek his fortune in California in 1841. He journeyed west as part of…- Contributor: Quaife, Milo Milton - Bidwell, John - Steele, John
- Date: 1928-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Gregson memoirs, containing Mrs. Eliza Gregson's "Memory" and the statement of James Gregson ... Eliza Marshall Gregson (b. 1824), a millworker, and James Gregson (b. 1822), a blacksmith, were natives of England who married in Rhode Island in 1843 and almost immediately schemed to escape to…- Contributor: Gregson, Eliza Marshall - Gregson, James
- Date: 1940-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialIndex ... Three years in California, by J.D. Borthwick ... William Blackwood & sons, Edinburgh and … Despite its title, this is not an index but an analytical table of contents for Borthwick's Three years in California (1857).- Contributor: Borthwick, John David - Gaer, Joseph
- Date: 1935-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialEarly days in California; scenes and events of the '50s as I remember them, Lee Summers Whipple-Haslam was the daughter of Franklin Summers, who came to California from Missouri in 1850 and mined enough gold at Shaw's Flat (near Sonora) to return east and bring his…- Contributor: Whipple-Haslam, Lee
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialAn excursion to California over the prairie, Rocky mountains, and great Sierra Nevada. With a stroll … Englishman William Redmond Kelly (1791-1855) visited California in 1849 and 1850, and his account of that trip was widely read. An excursion to California (1851) is the two-volume account of Kelly's trip…- Contributor: Kelly, William
- Date: 1851-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialBound for Sacramento; travel-pictures of a returned wanderer, Carl Meyer was a German-speaking Swiss who traveled to California in 1849. Bound for Sacramento (1938) is the English translation of Nach dem Sacramento, published in the Swiss town of Aarau in…- Contributor: Axe, Ruth Frey - Meyer, Carl
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialSights in the gold region, and scenes by the way. Theodore Taylor Johnson of New Jersey sailed to California in February 1849 and had returned home by the end of June. Sights in the gold region (1849) is the first published book…- Contributor: Johnson, Theodore T. (Theodore Taylor)
- Date: 1849-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialGranite crags; Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming (1837-1924) was an Englishwoman who sailed from Tahiti to San Francisco in April 1878 and remained in California for five months. Granite crags (1884) is a volume of her…- Contributor: Gordon Cumming, C. F. (Constance Frederica)
- Date: 1884-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialSanta Barbara and around there. Edwards Roberts was a resident of Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara and around there (1886) is a useful guide to the tourist attractions of the city and nearby Santa Ynez, the Ojai Valley,…- Contributor: Roberts, Edwards
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialRecollections of a '49er. A quaint and thrilling narrative of a trip across the plains, and … Edward Washington McIlhany (b. 1828) left West Virginia for the California gold fields in 1849. Recollections of a 49er (1908) describes his overland journey west, gold prospecting on Feather River and Grass…- Contributor: McIlhany, Edward Washington
- Date: 1908-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialSeventy-five years in California; a history of events and life in California: personal, political and military; … William Heath Davis (1822-1909) was the son of a Boston ship captain engaged in the Hawaiian trade and a Polynesian mother. He visited California twice on trading voyages before setting up business…- Contributor: Watson, Douglas S. (Douglas Sloane) - Davis, William Heath
- Date: 1929-01-01