Author : Edward Washington McIlhany
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 10,11 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Business
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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 Valley, hunting and trapping, proprietorship of a general store and hotel in Onion Valley, the Colorado gold rush, and Missouri railroading after the Civil War.
Author : McIlhany Edward Washington
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 24,12 MB
Release : 1901
Category :
ISBN : 9780243775453
Author : Edward Washington McIlhany
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 24,9 MB
Release : 2015-08-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781332185047
Excerpt from Recollections of a '49er: A Quaint and Thrilling Narrative of a Trip Across the Plains, and Life in the California Gold Fields During the Stirring Days Following the Discovery of Gold in the Far West Such a work as Edward Mcllhany's is most valuable because it gives an insight into the life and struggles of the "Days of '49" that the ordinary history, embellished as it may be, must needs lack. In preparing Mr. Mcllhany's "Recollections" for the press little has been changed from the original manuscript. To have interrupted the course of his narrative by interjecting anything that would tend to spoil the naturalness of the simple, quaint style would surely have been little less than a literary felony. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Edward Washington McIlhany
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 29,65 MB
Release : 2017-08-14
Category :
ISBN : 9780649210268
Author : James J. Rawls
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780806120201
Describes changing white views of native California Indians as Spanish victims, useful laborers, and, finally, obstacles to white expansion
Author : A. K. ]]>
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 23,14 MB
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0253053951
Solider, politician, miner, pioneer, scion of a Founding Father, William Stephen Hamilton led a prolific life. Rough Diamond: The Life of Colonel William Stephen Hamilton examines the tumultuous early Republic period of American history through the life of Alexander Hamilton's son. Born in New York in 1797, the fifth son of Alexander Hamilton, he was only seven when his father was infamously killed in a duel with Vice President Aaron Burr. After resigning from West Point, Hamilton moved to frontier Illinois in 1817. The famous name of Hamilton that may have acquired him rank and prestige at one time was meaningless in a Midwestern frontier society driven by the Jacksonians. Yet, despite being hurled into a clash of economic, political, and cultural cultures, Hamilton determined to live his life by his own rules. A veteran of the Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, Hamilton was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives before moving to the Wisconsin territory, where he founded the mining town of Hamilton's Diggings (Wiota, WI). When gold was discovered in California in 1848, he traveled west, where he would die in Sacramento in 1850. In Rough Diamond: The Life of Colonel William Stephen Hamilton, author A. K. Fielding expands the story of the Hamilton family. Hamilton's life offers a firsthand account of the formation of the Midwestern states, the realities of life on the frontier, and mass migration caused by the California Gold Rush.
Author : Thomas Jay Kemp
Publisher : Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,18 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780842028646
The growing availability of full-text books and journals on the Internet has made vast amounts of valuable genealogical information available at the touch of a button. The Genealogist's Virtual Library is a new volume that directs readers to the sites on the web that contain the full text of books.
Author : William Coughlin Braislin
Publisher :
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,71 MB
Release : 1927
Category : America
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Author : William S. Lambert
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 30,60 MB
Release : 1924
Category : America
ISBN :
Author : Irwin Silber
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 31,29 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486287041
Presents ninety-two songs of the American West, each with lyrics, a vocal score, simple piano arrangements, and chord symbols, and includes historical notes and commentaries, and over one hundred period illustrations.
