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1. 3 years in California - Borthwick, John David

   Edinburgh-born artist John David Borthwick (1825-c.1900) left New York for California in 1851, crossing the Isthmus at Chagres. In 1860 Borthwick returned to Britain, where his paintings were exhibited in several galleries including the Royal Academy. Three years in California (1857) focuses on his experiences mining gold and quartz at Hangtown, Foster's Bar, Downieville, Mississippi Bar, Jacksonville, and Carson's Hill. He devotes much attention...

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2. A "California Girl": The Life and Times of Anna Morrison Reed 1849-1921 - Thompson, Pauline C.

   This thesis focuses on Anna Morrison Reed, the "California Girl," and her life, her writings and the women and times she represented. Includes a chronology, maps and family photos.

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3. Achaeology of the North Coast Ranges, California - Meighan, Clement W.

   This academic report focuses on identifying the archaeological excavations in the North Coast ranges of California, describing their geographic features, and identifying the early peoples of these areas as well.

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4. A journal of explorations northward along the coast from Monterey in the year 1775 - Campa, Miguel de la

   Diary of Father Campa, kept while accompanying the important Spanish exploring expedition of 1775. Sailing from San Blas, they explored along the coast from Monterey to the Queen Charlotte Islands.

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5. A piney paradise by Monterey Bay, Pacific Grove; the documentary history of her first twenty-five years and a glimpse of her adulthood. - McLane, Lucy Neely

   History of the people and town of Pacific Grove between 1875 to 1900. Many photographs. McLane wrote this book while living at 239 Locust St. in Pacific Grove. Many details and stories.

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6. Autobiography of Lorenzo Waugh - Waugh, Lorenzo

   Biography of Lorenzo Waugh, including poetry, acrostics, also a short discussion of the slavery question.

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7. A western panorama, 1849-1875 : the travels, writings, and influence of J. Ross Browne on the Pacific Coast, and in Texas, Nevada, Arizona and Baja California, as the first mining commissioner and Minister to China - Goodman, David Michael

   Account of Browne's contributions to the development of the West. He led a varied career as a writer of books, a government agent, and finally as minister to China.

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8. A year of American travel : narrative of personal experience - Fremont, Jessie Benton

   Voyage to California in 1848: Impressions of Panama, San Francisco, Monterey, San Jose, etc., and a letter from Colonel John Charles Fremont, describing his expedition to the Rocky Mountains made during the winter of 1848-49.

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9. Benjamin C. Truman : California booster & bon vivant - Kurutz, Gary F.

   "Benjamin Truman won national recognition as a Civil War correspondent and was a confidential assistant to President Andrew Johnson. In the late1860's he came to California and, with much enthusiasm, began promoting the Golden State in newspaper articles and appearances at many world's fairs."

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10. Biobooks presents Stephen C. Massett in the first California troubadour. - Massett, Stephen C.

    Stephen C. Massett was the earliest entertainer at San Francisco and Sacramento, and his entertainment enterprise was apparently the start of organized theater in California. Arriving in California in 1849 he would later publish his autobiography in 1863 and this reprint book presents Massett's story.

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11. California : an illustrated history updated - Watkins, Tom H.

    "...Book of California, the first book whose scope matches that of the "most American of all the American states". The 544 pages of this remarkable volume vividly document more than four hundred years of the most varied and colorful history in the annals of the West, from the age of the conquistadores to the age of megalopolis, from the seekers of gold to the seekers of the twentieth-century Eden."

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12. California, an intimate history - Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

    History of California

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13. California as it is and as it may be; or, A guide to the gold region - Wierzbicki, Felix Paul

    Felix Paul Wierzbicki (1815-1860) left his native Poland after participating in the doomed revolution of 1830. He made his way to America where he received a medical degree and practiced in Providence, Rhode Island. When the Mexican War broke out, Wierzbicki enlisted in the Army and was sent to California. Wierzbicki left the Army shortly after reaching the West and practiced medicine until the discovery of gold drew him to prospecting on Mokelum...

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14. California Courthouses - Judicial Council of California

    A collection of photographs of the courthouses of California's 58 counties, and a brief history of each.

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15. California: for health, pleasure, and residence : a book for travellers and settlers - Nordhoff, Charles

    Charles Nordhoff (1830-1901) and his family came to America from Prussia when he was a boy and settled in Cincinnati, Ohio. Winning a reputation as a journalist and writer on the sea, Nordhoff was managing editor of the New York Evening Post, 1861-1871. He spent 1872-1873 travelling to California and Hawaii, and returned east to become the Washington correspondent of the New York Herald. He continued to visit California frequently and spent his l...

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16. California mining town newspapers, 1850-1880; a bibliography - Giffen, Helen S.

    Bibliography of mining town newspapers - 102 pages with several photographic examples of newspapers of the period. Includes index listing of mining town newspapers and list of mining town editors.

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17. California through four centuries; a handbook of memorable historical dates - Hanna, Phil Townsend

    "An encyclopedia of dates and events in the history of California. Starts with the coming of the Conquistadores, and comes up through the opening of the sluice gates above Boulder Dam."

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18. California women : a guide to their politics, 1885-1911 - Davis, Reda

    A brief history of women's suffrage movement in California.

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19. Early Military Posts of Mendocino County, California - Rogers, Fred Blackburn

    An excerpt from the California Historical Society Quarterly (Volume XXVII, Number 3), 13 pages, describing the history of the early military posts of Mendocino County, California.

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20. El Triunfo de la Cruz, the first ship built in the Californias - Hittell, Theodore H.

    How Father Juan Ugarte, in 1719, overcame almost insurmountable obstacles to build a ship needed by the Jesuit missionaries.

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