California Politics, 1857, 1861
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Page : 93 pages
File Size : 45,76 MB
Release : 1857
Category : California
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Page : 93 pages
File Size : 45,76 MB
Release : 1857
Category : California
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Author : Kimberly Johnston-Dodds
Publisher : California Research Bureau
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 50,71 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Law
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Created by the California Research Bureau at the request of Senator John L. Burton, this Web-site is a PDF document on early California laws and policies related to the Indians of the state and focuses on the years 1850-1861. Visitors are invited to explore such topics as loss of lands and cultures, the governors and the militia, reports on the Mendocino War, absence of legal rights, and vagrancy and punishment.
Author : Jean H. Baker
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 19,58 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Presidents
ISBN : 9780805069464
1. Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 2. Presidents United States Biography 3. United States - Politics and Government - 1857-1861.
Author : Robert Sobel
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Page : 522 pages
File Size : 18,28 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Governors
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Author : United States
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Page : 16 pages
File Size : 33,5 MB
Release : 1854
Category : Slavery
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Author : John Bidwell
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Page : 76 pages
File Size : 45,39 MB
Release : 1966
Category : California
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Author : Jessie Benton Frémont
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Page : 198 pages
File Size : 16,15 MB
Release : 1878
Category : Agriculture
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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 at her husband's newly-acquired ranch at Mariposas, 140 miles east of San Francisco. The Frémonts also spent the years 1851-1852 and 1857-1861 at the Mariposas ranch before moving to St. Louis during the Civil War. They returned to California in 1887 and made Los Angeles their home for the rest of their lives. A year of American travel (1878) was written by Mrs. Frémont to earn badly-needed money for her family after her husband went bankrupt in 1873. Here she describes her first trip to California in 1849: the voyage and crossing at Chagres, life on the Mariposas ranch, visits to San José and Monterey, the life of women in California, the plight of the Mission Indians, the slavery controversy in the territory, and the Monterey Constitutional Convention of 1849. The book closes with the Frémonts' return to the East when Frémont assumed his seat in the U.S. Senate.
Author : Waterman L. Ormsby
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 22,86 MB
Release : 2018-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1789125588
This is the classic firsthand account by Waterman L. Ormsby, a reporter who in 1858 crossed the western states as the sole through passenger of the Butterfield Overland Mail stage on its first trip from St. Louis to San Francisco. Ormsby’s reports, which soon appeared in the New York Herald, are lively and exciting. He describes the journey in close detail, giving full accounts of the accommodations, the other passengers, the country through which they passed, the dangers to which they were exposed, and the constant necessity for speed. “A most interesting account of the first westbound trip of an overland mail stage.”—Southern California Historical Society Quarterly “The best narrative of the trip and one of the best accounts of western travel by stage.”—Pacific Historical Review “If other travelers had been as careful and observant as Ormsby we should know vastly more about our country and the ways of our fathers than we do...The book is fascinating. It will prove interesting to all who care for travelogues, the history of the West, and particularly to those interested in our economic history.”—Journal of Economic History
Author : John S. D. Eisenhower
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 19,6 MB
Release : 2008-05-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429997419
The rough-hewn general who rose to the nation's highest office, and whose presidency witnessed the first political skirmishes that would lead to the Civil War Zachary Taylor was a soldier's soldier, a man who lived up to his nickname, "Old Rough and Ready." Having risen through the ranks of the U.S. Army, he achieved his greatest success in the Mexican War, propelling him to the nation's highest office in the election of 1848. He was the first man to have been elected president without having held a lower political office. John S. D. Eisenhower, the son of another soldier-president, shows how Taylor rose to the presidency, where he confronted the most contentious political issue of his age: slavery. The political storm reached a crescendo in 1849, when California, newly populated after the Gold Rush, applied for statehood with an anti- slavery constitution, an event that upset the delicate balance of slave and free states and pushed both sides to the brink. As the acrimonious debate intensified, Taylor stood his ground in favor of California's admission—despite being a slaveholder himself—but in July 1850 he unexpectedly took ill, and within a week he was dead. His truncated presidency had exposed the fateful rift that would soon tear the country apart.
Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,4 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
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ISBN : 9781016360821
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