William Henry Knight, California Pioneer
Author : Bertha Knight Power
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,56 MB
Release : 1932
Category : Businesspeople
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William Henry Knight
Author : Bertha Knight Power
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 10,45 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781494074661
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1932 edition.
William Henry Winter (1819-1879)
Author : Gordon L. Pattison
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 28,33 MB
Release : 1999
Category :
ISBN :
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William Henry Knight Papers
Author : William Henry Knight
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 1855
Category : Astronomy
ISBN :
Book Description
Contains correspondence, subject files, writings, clippings, tributes, and ephemera. Correspondence includes letters to wife Ella, daughter Stella Knight Ruess, and other family members and some professional correspondence including some while working for H.H. Bancroft and Co. Subject files include items on Astronomy, Edward Everett Hale, and the Commonwealth Party (Progressive Party). Also includes correspondence regarding Knight's accident and death, an incomplete manuscript of the biography on Knight, letters regarding donation of biography and correspondence of Waldo Ruess concerning works of his grandfather.
A Venture in History
Author : Harry Clark
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 32,81 MB
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0520313062
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.
A Venture in History
Author : Harry Clark
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 32,56 MB
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0520308557
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.
A Picture of Pioneer Times in California
Author : William Francis White
Publisher :
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 1881
Category : Business
ISBN :
Book Description
William Francis White (1829-1891?) and his young wife sailed from New York in 1849 round the Horn to San Francisco, where he set up an import business. He later represented Santa Cruz in the state constitutional convention and served as a bank commissioner. A picture of pioneer times in California (1881), written under the pseudonym "William Grey," presents White's revisionist version of California history challenging the picture presented in the 1854 Annals of San Francisco. In particular, he attacks the Annals' discussion of the Mission Fathers and the Mission Indians, the United States conquest of California in the Mexican War, discovery of gold at Sutter's Fort, and the role of women during the Gold Rush. He also reminisces about his voyage to California and experiences as a San Francisco merchant, 1849-1850, as well as legends of the gold mines. The volume concludes with three fictional tales of California in the Gold Rush.
HIST SPOTS OLD EDN
Author : Hero Eugene Rensch
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 23,18 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780804700795
Book Description
"Now in a one-volume revised edition, this encyclopedia of California historical information remains an ideally practical reference to the state."--From the dust-jacket front flap.
Constitution and By-laws of the Society of California Pioneers
Author : Society of California Pioneers
Publisher :
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 45,15 MB
Release : 1912
Category : California
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Everett Ruess
Author : Philip L. Fradkin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,88 MB
Release : 2011-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0520949927
Book Description
Everett Ruess was twenty years old when he vanished into the canyonlands of southern Utah, spawning the myth of a romantic desert wanderer that survives to this day. It was 1934, and Ruess was in the fifth year of a quest to record wilderness beauty in works of art whose value was recognized by such contemporary artists as Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and Edward Weston. From his home in Los Angeles, Ruess walked, hitchhiked, and rode burros up the California coast, along the crest of the Sierra Nevada, and into the deserts of the Southwest. In the first probing biography of Everett Ruess, acclaimed environmental historian Philip L. Fradkin goes beyond the myth to reveal the realities of Ruess’s short life and mysterious death and finds in the artist’s astonishing afterlife a lonely hero who persevered.
