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Title

  • Granite crags;

Summary

  • 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 travel letters detailing visits to San Rafael, the redwood forsets, the San Joaquín and Sacramento Valleys, Yosemite, Oakland, and Tulare Lake. She evinces great interest in hydraulic mining operations and quartz mining near Sonora and the Stanislaus River and gives special attention to the region's botany and agriculture as well as recounting tales of the Gold Rush and San Francisco in the lawless 1850s.

Names

  • Gordon Cumming, C. F. (Constance Frederica), 1837-1924.

Created / Published

  • Edinburgh, London, W. Blackwood and sons, 1884.

Headings

  • -  California--Description and travel
  • -  Yosemite Valley (Calif.)
  • -  Law--Political aspects--California
  • -  Mines and mineral resources--California
  • -  Agriculture--California
  • -  Business--California

Notes

  • -  Travels in California.

Medium

  • viii p., 1 l., 384 p. front., plates, fold. map. 21 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • F866 .G66

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • rc01000849

Rights Advisory

  • No known restrictions on publication.

Online Format

  • image
  • pdf
  • online text

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"California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900.

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Chicago citation style:

Gordon Cumming, C. F. Granite Crags. Edinburgh, London, W. Blackwood and sons, 1884. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/rc01000849/.

APA citation style:

Gordon Cumming, C. F. (1884) Granite Crags. Edinburgh, London, W. Blackwood and sons. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/rc01000849/.

MLA citation style:

Gordon Cumming, C. F. Granite Crags. Edinburgh, London, W. Blackwood and sons, 1884. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/rc01000849/>.