The Magnificent Rogues of San Francisco
Author : Charles F. Adams
Publisher : Silverstowe Book
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,50 MB
Release : 2012-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781618090577
The Magnificent Rogues of San Francisco
Author : Charles Francis Adams
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,19 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Impostors and imposture
ISBN : 9780870152627
Book Description
The Palace Hotel
Author : Richard Harned
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 25,31 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738559698
Book Description
When it opened in 1875, the Palace Hotel was the largest and most luxurious hotel in the world, a perfect symbol of one of the most remarkable eras in San Francisco history. Built at a time when Nevada's fabulously rich silver mines were pouring millions of dollars each month into San Francisco, it typified the color and grandiose extravagances of the whole bonanza period. After the original hotel was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire, a successor Palace Hotel took its place and remains one of the most prestigious hotels in San Francisco today.
The Barbary Plague
Author : Marilyn Chase
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,88 MB
Release : 2004-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0375757082
Book Description
The veteran Wall Street Journal science reporter Marilyn Chase’s fascinating account of an outbreak of bubonic plague in late Victorian San Francisco is a real-life thriller that resonates in today’s headlines. The Barbary Plague transports us to the Gold Rush boomtown in 1900, at the end of the city’s Gilded Age. With a deep understanding of the effects on public health of politics, race, and geography, Chase shows how one city triumphed over perhaps the most frightening and deadly of all scourges.
San Francisco Noir
Author : Nathaniel Rich
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 10,60 MB
Release : 2005-03-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781892145307
Book Description
All cities have their secrets, but none are so dark as San Francisco's, the city that Ambrose Bierce famously described as "a point upon a map of fog." With its reputation as a shadowy land of easy vice and hard virtue, San Francisco provided the ideal setting for many of the greatest films noir, from classics like The Maltese Falcon and Dark Passage to obscure treasures like Woman on the Run and D.O.A., and neo-noirs like Point Blank and The Conversation. Readers visit the Mission Dolores cemetery where James Stewart spied Kim Novak visiting Carlotta's grave in Vertigo; the Steinhart Aquarium, where a steamy love scene unfolded between Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth in The Lady from Shanghai; and the Kezar Stadium, where Clint Eastwood captures the serial killer, Scorpio, in a blaze of ghastly white light in Dirty Harry. In this guide to the great films noir and the locations where they were shot, the mythic noir city meets San Francisco's own dark past. With period film stills.
The Michigan Alumnus
Author :
Publisher : UM Libraries
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 50,27 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Cooking
ISBN :
Book Description
In volumes1-8: the final number consists of the Commencement annual.
Golden Dreams
Author : Frank Baumgarder
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,88 MB
Release : 2020-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1480886777
Book Description
When gold was found in Northern California, news of it spread like a wildfire during the spring and summer of 1848. At first, most people thought the reports were too good to be true, but as weeks and months flew by, they heard about more people striking it rich – and imaginations started to run wild. Tens of thousands of people started to dream about gold, and some of them left everything they knew to make the journey to California. It didn’t matter if you were black, white or brown – anyone could go. Even people in Central and South America, Australia, China, and Western Europe heard about the gold and made the journey. By 1855, hundreds of thousands of people had converged on California. In this study, the author shares diary entries from gold seekers, painting a detailed portrait of the frenzy that overtook the world, the lives of the miners, and how the move West changed the fabric of a nation. Without the dreams, hard work, and dedication of the miners who moved West, the United States of America would not be what it is today.
What Lies Beneath
Author : Gail L. Jenner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1493048961
Book Description
Unearth the Mysteries of Those Who Lie Beneath the Oldest Graveyards in the Golden State In each of California’s 58 counties there are hundreds (and hundreds) of cemeteries, burial sites, and abandoned graveyards, some tucked away behind storefronts or under paved streets. “Burying grounds” are found in neighborhoods, pastures, fields, downtowns, backyards, or deep in the woods. In What Lies Beneath: California Pioneer Cemeteries and Graveyards, author Gail L. Jenner exhumes the stories of these pioneers buried beneath the soil, pavement, and rocks, or under the waters of this state. This guide also provides descriptions of headstone features and symbols, and demystifies the burial traditions used by the Native Americans, Spanish, Chinese immigrants, and early California pioneers and settlers.
Subject Guide to Books in Print
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 3310 pages
File Size : 17,82 MB
Release : 1997
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Book Description
California History
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 15,79 MB
Release : 1998
Category : California
ISBN :
